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Jun 06, 2014 News
Double tragedy struck early yesterday morning in the quiet community of Sisters’ Village, East Bank, Berbice.
The lifeless bodies of two young people – one very outgoing and talkative, and the other, very shy and reserved— were found, meters apart in their respective backyards near mango trees. Found with a knife in her chest was Latoya Adams, 14, of Sisters’ Village. Her body also bore another incision on her throat. She was a Third Form student of the Berbice Educational Institute (BEI).
Across the road, the body of her 23-year-old boyfriend, Kellon ‘Gadget’ Sam, was found hanging from a rope attached to a mango tree at his Lot 18, Sisters’ Village backyard. He bore no wounds about his body. The two had shared a relationship for the past year.
None of the two individuals spent Wednesday night at their homes. Adams ingested an overdose of tablets about a year ago for the boy and ended up in the New Amsterdam Hospital for several days.
Screams and loud wailing pervaded the rainy atmosphere as the body of Kellon Sam was removed from the yard. There was chaos as his mother, aunts and other relatives screamed and threw themselves on the road as the undertakers pushed the body into the hearse.
Kellon’s brother, Colville stated that a neighbour, Oddoo, made the gruesome discovery around 06:00 hrs. “I come home from work at midnight and the neighbour called me this morning when I wake up and said somebody hang themself by our backyard. I called my father and everyone run at the back.”
He last spoke to his brother Wednesday morning, “and he was vex about something because I told him to leave some food for me to carry to work. I asked he why he behaving so, and then he started to quiet down.”
He added that Kellon was dealing with lots of problems including being suddenly laid off by the Caricom Cement Bagging Company on East Bank Berbice a week ago and that he was under a lot of financial pressure and stress.
When asked about the kind of friendship he and the 14-year-old shared, he added that it was a normal friendship, “normal gaffing…I can’t really say…she never came here.”
His mother said that she came from work around 16:00 hrs on Wednesday. “They [Caricom Cement Company] knock he off without a cause and like he take on this thing, so from since then he sleeping on the road (by friends). So I said, ‘Kellon you will end up in problems’.
“He came in Wednesday afternoon, he bathe and go out. He don’t stay in here; he left and he go away.”
She added that her son asked her to leave the door open for him [in the night]. This morning [Thursday] I wake up and I see my son clothes down there, and noticed the [clothes] line missing. I asked Kerwin where it was and he said Kellon gone with it.”
It was then she made the shocking discovery.
“Me son is an easy child. He get problems, he do not talk; he does keep it in,” she said. She admitted he and Adams were close friends, “but I don’t know if they had any problems or what because like he does go over at another girl. I don’t know if she [Latoya] knew and they quarreled.”
“Look what Kellon do to me,” she wailed on her patio floor. She added that her son had been in previous relationships with girls. “Parents talk to your boy and girl children when they get problems,” she cried.
Her son never entertained the idea of suicide, she added.
Sam leaves to mourn his mother, Jacqueline, father, Gordon and siblings, Kerwin, Reyon, and Travis.
Loud wailing and screaming, too, were heard as the body of Latoya Adams was put in the same hearse. Her father, Robert Adams, said that they adopted the child from abusive parents at age six.
He added that Latoya never came home the night before, and they searched frantically for her. Her mother, Maureen Adams, was not in a state of mind to speak. She only said that she discovered the body around 06:30 hrs.
“I talk to the police already, I ain’t able talk too much…I weary talk,” she said. She last spoke to her daughter Wednesday afternoon shortly before she left for work at the local health centre in the area. Her daughter seemed normal.
She and other family members were tight- lipped about the level of friendship her daughter shared with Sam. Latoya attended school on Wednesday after which she came home and “soaked down a load of clothes to wash” then left. That was the last she saw of her.
The girl’s father said that she was an avid churchgoer. She was a choir member of the All Saints’ Presbyterian Church in New Amsterdam. He last spoke with her on Wednesday morning and everything seemed fine, too.
When asked if anyone in the village saw her on Wednesday night, Adams said, “Someone said they saw her going up the road.”
”Around 19:30 hrs, I say to myself, ‘up to now this girl ain’t come back’. The light was on in her room so I took off the light and came downstairs and told my wife I didn’t see her.”
He said she was a very talkative girl, “she used to go Scotts’ Church—singing.”
Neighbours of Adams were also tight-lipped about the relationship the girl shared with the now dead Kellon Sam. They were also reluctant to say if the two shared a violent or abusive relationship.
Both bodies are at the Arokium Funeral Home awaiting autopsies.
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