“let the sun not set with YOU in a provoked state”

Posted by Yardie Luke on October 11, 2010 under Health | Comments are off for this article

I am reminded of the value of resolving a quarrel/fuss before the end of the day (Ephesians 4:25-27) after reading this very sad story:

Family, friends mourn death of higgler shot in passenger bus

WHEN Paula Henry got a call minutes to eight from her cousin Kamara ‘Camille’ July last Friday night, she was still so upset from a quarrel they had on Monday about money that she ignored the call.

Little did Henry know that that was the last time July would ever ring her phone. At the time of the call, July had just received a bullet to her upper body while sitting in the front seat of a Toyota Hiace minibus on Maxfied Avenue, on her way to downtown Kingston.

The bullet fired from outside the bus during a robbery attempt struck July in the upper body and she frantically called Henry but when there was no answer, she called her best friend breathing heavily while she bled to death in the passenger vehicle.

“Lady, is true you don’t know,” Henry said as she wailed with pain.

“If mi did only know! She call me, and me neva answer her,” she sobbed. “From Monday mi and her have argument over money and mi run her from mi and everytime she call mi don’t answer her. But is when she get shot she call me, because as she hang up she call her best friend and all she hear was her breathing short. All she (best friend) saying ‘Camille’, ‘Camille’ she wouldn’t answer.”

Henry said now she would never know if her cousin wanted to make peace with her before she died. More