St Thomas child killed violently
March 20, 2009
NINE-YEAR-OLD Courtney Walker was a willing, unsuspecting boy who would readily run errands for adults.
He was supposed to have been in class at the Morant Bay Primary in St Thomas yesterday, but his mother did not have enough money to send him. He stayed home; and it was the last day he lived.
Young Courtney was sexually molested and then stabbed several times in a lonely, bushy St Thomas lane.
Police say the boy was in the Bamboo River community, a mile outside Morant Bay yesterday, when an adult sent him to purchase a pack of cigarettes.
It is uncertain what happened between that time and when he was found, partially nude in a pool of blood just before noon.
He was rushed to the Princess Margaret Hospital where he was pronounced dead an hour later.
"It is very disheartening, outrageous and troubling," superintendent of police in charge of St Thomas, Jonathan Morrison, commented yesterday.
Police said Courtney's body had in excess of twenty stab wounds.
DNA samples taken
One man has been taken into custody by the police. Investigators have already taken DNA samples from him as they attempt to solve the crime....
Author: Daraine Luton
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
