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Police Looking For Dead Woman’s Boyfriend

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Murder Victim Shirley Dawn Morton
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By: Spokesman Newsroom

BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (MONDAY 22ND JANUARY, 2018) – Wayne ‘Spyer’ Chapman, the boyfriend of the woman killed yesterday (Sunday) in Nevis, is currently being looked for by police in connection with the crime.

Dead is 45-year-old Shirley Dawn Morton of Hanleys Road in Gingerland.

At about 5 p.m. on the day in question, police in Gingerland responded to a report at Buck Hill.

There they found the lifeless body of a woman in a house on Hanleys Road.

Reportedly, Morton had visible injuries to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene by Dr. Chandy Jacobs.

A social media tribute to the deceased before local authorities officially identified her

The scene was processed and a number of items of evidential value were taken into police custody.

The owner of the house and boyfriend of the deceased is currently being sought by the police in connection with the incident.

Persons with information regarding this matter are urged to assist by calling the Violent Crime Unit at the Cotton Ground Police Station at 469-5269, the Gingerland Police Station at 469-3448, the nearest Police Station or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-8477 (TIPS).

Morton’s death is the second recorded homicide for 2018 in the Federation with both deadly incidents occurring on Nevis and in the Gingerland community.

The first killing took place on Wednesday 17th January involving 19- year- old Cleon Browne who was shot dead in Rawlins Village in Gingerland, the area he recently relocated to from Newcastle village.

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