A THREE-MONTH-OLD baby was the only one left alive following a triple murder in Cocorite yesterday which the police described as a scene out of a horror movie.
Up to press time last night neither police nor the relatives of the victims had any clue why the three people were killed.
The bodies of the victims were discovered in separate sections of an unfinished concrete house at Phase One, Powder Magazine. Two of the victims, who were married in June 2007, had their throats slit, "from ear to ear," one investigator said.
In another part of the apartment was the woman's teenage cousin. His throat had been slit as well.
The only survivor was a three-month-old baby boy, named Zion, the only child of the couple, and it was his frantic, desperate cries which alerted the friends of the couple that something was horribly wrong at the house. The child was released into the care of relatives, police said.
In the midst of the Barack Obama presidential inauguration (around 11 a.m.) the first person found dead was Devon Joseph, a 26-year-old pipefitter, employed with the Water and Sewerage Authority.
His wife, Kimlyn Cassie-Joseph, 27, was found in another part of the house. She worked as a checker with the Diego Martin Regional Corporation. Her cousin, 14-year-old Khyle Williams, was also found dead, by some of Joseph's co-workers.
The St James Police were among the first officers on the scene, among them head of the station's CID, Insp Henry Dann, and secured the crime scene.
Officers from the Homicide Bureau as well as the Special Anti-Crime Unit joined them afterwards and began gathering evidence.
By then the community learned what had happened as they all congregated at the scene. Among them, Shirley Cassie-Kimlyn's mother. The small built woman became angry when she was told by investigators that she could go no further. "I just want to see my daughter's body," she yelled at them.
Khyle Williams's mother also arrived on the scene and screamed in horror.
One of Khyle's sisters explained to reporters that at one time the teenager attended the Diego Martin Secondary School. He dropped out to help his father sell fish.
Homicide Bureau officers are continuing investigations.
