00:00 [shouting]
00:07 The screams of relatives and friends of 29-year-old Nikisha Romeo Sandy of Jaggers Hall trace Plymouth.
00:14 The employee of the Division of Infrastructure was shot mere metres away from her Plymouth home after leaving for work.
00:21 Her father, Kevin Sandy, said he was at home when he heard the gunshots.
00:26 Where were you at the time of the shooting?
00:30 I was next door right by my father right there, laying down sleeping.
00:35 And while I was laying down there sleeping, I heard the shots and them ringing off.
00:40 I was right there and I heard the shots and them ringing off this morning.
00:43 And I came outside and when I came outside now, I see one of my nephew running up back the hill.
00:50 And while he's running up back the hill, I asked him what happened.
00:53 And he turned out to me and tell me, "You know, Stunky lay down on the ground there. They shoot Stunky."
00:59 And when I run down there, I see my daughter on the ground lay down there.
01:02 Nikisha Romeo Sandy was a mother of one.
01:06 Police reports state that she was walking along Plymouth Road in the company of other people
01:11 when two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, approached her, pointed the weapon at her, and pulled the trigger several times.
01:20 As Miss Romeo Sandy fell to the ground, the people she was walking with scampered to safety.
01:26 Investigators say the men escaped on foot by running along River Road, Plymouth.
01:32 Area Representative and THA Assemblyman for Plymouth, Black Rock, Niall George, told TV6 News
01:39 he was at his Plymouth home when he heard the rapid gunshots and rushed to the scene,
01:45 only to realize that the victim was someone he knew.
01:48 This is someone that I knew from pretty much growing up.
01:52 And to actually hear the gunshots and be one of the first persons on the scene is very distressing.
01:58 My family is very close to us. We have grown up as neighbors.
02:02 My general thoughts on the crime situation is I really don't want to be able to get numb to the situation.
02:10 It has become very frequent. You can hear the breaking in my voice because, as I said,
02:17 it means much more when it's close, when it feels almost as if it's happening.
02:24 But we really need to get an arrest in this crime situation.
02:29 It's a very distressing situation. It's very uncomfortable.
02:32 Because you never know if there are other people around, people going to work.
02:37 I mean, this happened at around 5 minutes to 6, and there could have been collateral damage.
02:42 But just back then, I don't understand the logic and the violence against females.
02:47 This is in the space of pretty much less than two weeks, two females again.
02:51 So it's a very distressing situation.
02:54 The District Medical Office of Health visited the scene and ordered the body removed to the Scarborough Mortuary.
03:00 An autopsy is to be performed to determine the cause of death.
03:04 Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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