June 10, 2015 Jamaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The police's Corporate Communications Unit a short while ago issued a news release identifying the eight-year-old that is suspected to have committed suicide at his home in Gordon Town on Tuesday night.
He is Chad Robinson of Dublin Castle.
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| Chad Robinson |
It was further reported that he was later found hanging by shoe laces from a ladder in the yard.
The police were summoned, the scene processed and his body removed.
Up to Wednesday evening, police were still conducting interviews and investigating the circumstances surrounding the boy's death. PIERCING screams from a despondent mother Tuesday night drew the attention of dozens of people in the sleepy farming community of Gordon Town, where the frail body of her eight-year-old child -- Chad Michael Robinson -- was found hanging by a shoelace.
The discovery rocked the rural St Andrew community and left several residents asking questions, even as allegations swirled that the case could have been a suicide.
Yesterday, police investigators who were still combing the area for clues, declined to comment on the claims, but this did nothing to quell the fury of irate residents who demanded answers as they speculated about the incident.
Residents reported that about 9:00 pm on Tuesday, eight-year-old Chad, his 10-year-old brother, and another childhood friend ventured over to their neighbour's house, a location where they normally hang out and play.
The children, residents said, started arguing over a shoelace, which adults considered a trivial matter and did not bother to intervene.
Minutes later, two of the children returned without Chad.
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| Chad Robinson’s mother Shelly-Ann Levy shows a detective (centre) where her son was found hanging Tuesday night, while her common-law husband Otis Reid listens. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD) |
Mother and stepfather of the child said that queries were made about the whereabouts of the boy and, when no word was forthcoming, they went over to the house to locate the child. That was when the frail and lifeless frame of the child was found dangling from the shoelace that was said to be the centre of the argument earlier.
"When I saw the body of Chad I ran over [and] tried to lift his body to take off the weight," said Otis Reid, the child's stepfather. He said that after several attempts he was unable to pull the cord and had to cut it.
Chad's mother, Shelly-Ann Levy, said she tried everything to revive the child, who residents remembered as jovial and energetic youth. "Mi try everything; all CPR mi try to save mi son," said Levy.
Yesterday, Levy tried hard to hold back the tears as she recounted the horrific ordeal when she found her child. With her voice trembling, at one time she held her stomach as she tried to regain composure.
Yesterday, as police continued their probe, residents gathered at the wooden gate to the concrete house perched on the hillside. "Right now, everybody in the area puzzled," said one resident, who identified himself only as Mark.
He was among several residents who all whispered among themselves seemingly in a desperate attempt to make sense of what had happened. more
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