PRIORY, St Ann — The suspected suicide of a teenage girl at her residence in Priory St Ann, has left her relatives and residents baffled as they desperately try to come to terms with the tragic incident.

The north coast community awoke to news yesterday morning that Tiffany Johnson, an 18-year-old student at of the Brown’s Town Community College campus in Discovery Bay, reportedly killed herself.

“Me can’t believe sey Tiffi really kill herself; a no the Tiffi weh me know, lawd Jesus,” a distraught onlooker said in a loud tone outside the girl’s family house yesterday morning.

“Tiffany was a very nice person, I took her to school everyday, she don’t deserve this, she hardly talk, I don’t think she kill herself,” a man who identified himself as her taxi driver told the Observer.

Head of the St Ann police Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson said a note, believed to have been written by Johnson and which indicated that she was going to end her life, was recovered by the police.

“This note is quite graphic,” SSP Wilson told the Observer. “Incidentally, it indicated that she was molested and that might be one of the reasons why she actually took her life.”

SSP Wilson would not divulge much detail on the molestation or other information in the note, noting that such information was now the subject of police investigation.

A relative reportedly discovered Johnson’s body dangling from a breadfruit tree at the back of the house she shared with her parents and other family members.

It”s believed she used a piece of rope from a swing that was attached to the tree to hang herself. A wooden stool was also found under the tree.

Yesterday, Johnson’s parents and other relatives, several of whom had to seek medical attention at the nearby St Ann”s Bay Hospital, were too distraught to speak with our reporter.

Residents described Johnson as a very brilliant and promising youngster who did not display any sign of depression or complained of any problems. They also expressed concerns over the number of people ending their own like.

“Is like a spell on the country; too many people taking their own life, is like people have become hopeless; it is a major concern because you never know who next,” a resident who identified herself as Norma told the Observer.