By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (Friday 3rd May 2019) – Granddaughter of homicide victim 77-year-old Constance Thompson-Gumbs has revealed how her granny was tragically discovered dead by a child earlier this week.
Via a GoFundMe account set up to assist the family with raising some finances amidst the tragedy, Bora Thompson explains: “On April 29th, 2019 around 5:30 PM, a child walked up to the front steps of Constance Thompson-Gumbs’ residence in Conaree, St Kitts to give her a few coins in exchange for a small snack. Chips, local candy, and juice were amongst some of the treats she sold to the children just to make ends meet. As he pushed open the door, he found Constance on the floor, not breathing and injured from significant wounds to the body… to that child and that neighborhood she was ‘Consie’. To her 6 children, she was ‘Mom’. To her 15 grandchildren was ‘Grandma’.
She continued: On April 29th, 2019 just before 5:30 pm our 77-year-old grandmother who lived alone in a community she loved, was robbed and murdered. My family is angry, we are confused, we are heartbroken but nothing can bring her back. Instead, we ask for your help. My grandmother had 6 children and 15 grandchildren all of which she loved dearly and wanted nothing more for us to be together and love one another so that is our goal.”
Thompson explained that her grandmother’s services will be held in St Kitts but “Due to this unexpected tragedy, we did not have time to financially prepare for this trip and we do not have the funds to get everyone there to say their last goodbyes. Any help is truly, sincerely appreciated.”
Police received a report of a body being found in a house at Conaree at approximately 5:30 p.m.
Officers responded and found Thompson-Gumbs lying motionless in the living room of her house with multiple stab wounds in various parts of her body.
The District Medical Officer, Dr. Maria Warner was summoned to the scene and pronounced Thompson dead. Personnel from the Forensic Unit processed the scene and took items of evidential value into custody.
A man is in police custody assisting with the investigating into the incident. Investigations into the matter are ongoing.
Thompson-Gumbs is the Federation’s 10th homicide victim; her death occurring days after a young man(Donald Cornelius) was gunned down in Nevis.