A constable assigned to the CIB Headquarters in Kingston was last night being questioned by the police following the shooting death of Aldonna Harris-Vasquez, 23, the mother of his twin daughter and son, at their home at at 5 Pinnacle Close in Pembroke Hall, Kingston 20.

According to Superintendent Ezra Stewart of the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI, the woman, who married a Puerto Rican three weeks ago, was shot in the head yesterday morning by a revolver assigned to the police constable.

Supt Stewart told the Observer that the police constable reported that he was in bed sleeping when he heard an explosion and got up and walked towards the bathroom. Harris-Vasquez, who had been shot in the head, allegedly fell from behind the bathroom door. The constable saw his firearm beside her in the region of her abdomen near her right hand and a note was found in the bedroom, the police superintendent said.

Former co-workers of Harris-Vasquez were stunned on hearing of her death, and some did not believe that she could have killed herself. Harris-Vasquez worked as a photographer at Wholesale Photos at the Boulevard Super Centre on Washington Boulevard, up to December 2002.

“… she had everything going for her. She married a Puerto Rican three weeks ago, and was very happy. She was to have started a course at the University of Technology on Monday coming. She loved her twins and was going to migrate eventually,” a former co-worker told the Observer.