UPDATE: IN JAMAICA, Police probing whether obsession led to Brooklyn nursing student, friend's death Abusive man didn’t want girlfriend talking to anyone

A relationship with an obsessed and abusive man is being blamed for the murder of two female cousins, one of whom had only returned from New York on a visit a day before the brutal killings.

Johnson kisses Ricardo Grey,
 who is being sought by the
 police for questioning

 Relatives of victim Franciena Johnson — a 19-year-old nursing student of addresses in Jacob's Hut, in May Pen, Clarendon and Brooklyn, New York — told the Jamaica Observer on Friday that her relations with her boyfriend, whom the police have named as a person of interest in the murders, had been rife with abuse.
According to relatives, the boyfriend had in the past threatened to take Johnson's life if she ended the relationship. On Friday, December 20 — on what was supposed to be the three-year anniversary of their relationship — Johnson's body was fished from the Salt Marsh River in Clarendon after residents phoned the police about explosions in the area.

Arlene Robinson, mother of
Nordia Fearon, holds a picture of
her slain daughter, amid the grief.

 

The body, which had multiple gunshot wounds, was discovered hours after a missing person report was filed with the May Pen police regarding Johnson and her cousin Nordia Fearon, 19, who is of a Foga Road address in Salt River. Fearon's body was recovered from the river three days later. The Clarendon police on Friday named Johnson's boyfriend, Ricardo Grey, as a person of interest in the murders.

Grey is also known as Baugh, Liston Dixon and Liston Grey. He is said to frequent Greater Portmore and Spanish Town in St Catherine; Western Park, Farm/Effortville, Buck's Avenue, Bucknor, Buck's Common, Longville Park/Salt River in Clarendon; Little London in Westmoreland; and Spaldings and Christiana in Manchester. On Friday, the Sunday Observer visited relatives of the murdered teens in Clarendon. At Fearon's father's yard, a black banner, bearing pictures of the teen, hung above the gateway. Similar pictures were mounted around the community. Read more: