LITTLE LONDON, Westmoreland – The Victim Support Centre yesterday began to counsel the relatives of 18 year-old Sasha-Kay Meyers, who was chopped to death Sunday by 19 year-old Damion Brown near her home in this small district. Brown family also received counselling.

The families of both teenagers were emotionally traumatised yesterday as they reflected on Sunday’s tragedy where Brown used a machete to chop Meyers, almost severing her head, while she was walking towards her home with her five-year-old brother, Jason.

Brown who fled the scene after the incident, was accosted by the police in a canefield and fatally shot.

Relatives of the two teens who were scheduled to get counselling from the Victim Support Centre in Westmoreland included:

. Brown’s uncle, Albert Sedley, a 57 year-old sugar worker, who was overcome with grief on Sunday as he condemned the action of his nephew;

. Sasha-Kay’s mother, Paula Powell, was also clearly distraught after the incident on Sunday as she lay on the bed her daughter used to sleep in, clutching her clothes and crying;

. Jason, Sasha-Kay’s little brother, who witnessed the gruesome killing if his sibling, as well as Sasha Kay’s grandmother and her father.

In the meantime, members of both families said yesterday that Sasha-Kay’s death could have been prevented if the police had intervened months ago when Brown was ‘acting up’.

“De bway did ova deh a sharpen im machete from morning.Lawd Gad supposed if a did me one son im did kill?” said Sedley.

However, Sgt Balfour Gore, head of the community relations arm of the Westmoreland police, said no reports concerning Damion Brown had reached his department.

If they had, he said, the unit would either have offered counselling, mediation or a referral to an a propriate institution.