Last Updated on July 20, 2020, 8:38 PM AST by Anthony Morris
The Trelawny police have charged another woman in connection with the murder of 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, a Trelawny woman who was shot dead three weeks ago in her bedroom of the Reserve district home.
The fourth suspect who has been charged with the murder of Tamara Geddes is 33-year-old Tashana Young from Salt Spring, St James.
Young has been charged with conspiracy to murder and murder.
The Trelawny police charged the elder sister and two nieces of Tamara Geddes with her murder on Friday.
The deceased woman’s elder sister, 39-year-old Nadeen Geddes, is said to be the mastermind of the plot of her murder. The nieces are a minor and 21-year-old Shanice Ruddock.
The sister and nieces of the deceased are in custody at the Falmouth Police Station lock-up along with two men who are from Westmoreland and who have also been implicated in the murder.
The men are yet to be charged.
Investigators said that based on intelligence which they have gathered, Young allegedly took payment from Nadeen Geddes and gave it over to the contract killer.
Young was picked up last Thursday from a location in Westmoreland along with the alleged contract killer.
The police believe that the two men who are in custody also played a part in the murder conspiracy of Geddes.
A police source has said that based on the information which they have ascertained during their question-and-answer sessions with the mother and daughters who have been charged with murder, they are satisfied that they are on track in solving the murder before the courts.
According to the police, at about 8:30 p.m. on, June 19, Friday, Geddes and her 10-year-old daughter were in a bedroom in their house when a masked man forced his way in and held them both at gunpoint.
Reportedly, the gunman demanded money and proceeded to rob Geddes of two cell phones and $16,000 in cash. The man then demanded sex, but she refused his request. Then he opened fire on her and killed her on the spot.
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