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In March, Elaine Locke got news that her 16-year-old grandson, Phillip Palmer, was shot and killed in a section of Seaview Gardens, St Andrew. Still coming to terms with that loss, her family has again been plunged into mourning. Her daughter, Winsome Williams, and granddaughter, Daniella Carnegie, were murdered in Spanish Town on Sunday night.

Reports from the Corporate Communications Unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Williams, 37, and her 23-year-old daughter, who is popularly known as Bonita were at home in Eltham Park at 9:10 p.m., when men attacked them. The police said that shots were heard and they were summoned to the scene. On their arrival, the bodies of the two women were seen. They were taken to the hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Left Seaview

"All now me weak. I can't believe they are dead. Mi nah get over Phillip death and now dem come and tek two one time. Help me, Lawd ... woii dem tek the two a dem," Locke cried.

Phillip was Winsome's child. She reportedly left Seaview Gardens after his murder, relocating to St Catherine.

"She was living with me and she move out and go live at a place they call Nitty Gritty (also in Seaview Gardens). Her two daughters lived with her and the likkle boy lived with his father, but he would go to her in the evenings for dinner. But it happen that he was going there and I hear seh dem kill him over there so she tek it to heart and seh she nah go live there anymore. She go look a house to rent in Spanish Town," the grandmother said.

Locke, 63, said that she last saw her daughter last Saturday at a wedding.

"My brother married Saturday and she (Williams) and Bonita came here and we went to wedding, had a good time, enjoy wiself and come home back. I was so surprised when I deh yah last night and we get call seh dem shoot up Bonita and Winsome," she said.

Locke said they are a close knit family and she is not sure how she is going to handle this situation.

"Mi nuh know how wi a guh manage. A just the grace a God because wi bury one couple months ago and now wi have two to bury," she said.