WATCH: ‘I don’t feel safe’
- PNP councillor-elect for Sav-la-Mar division says her life is in danger
WESTMORELAND Jamaica – Following the recent killing of a member of her campaign team, councillor-elect for the Savanna-la-Mar division, Julian Chang is crying out for help as she believes her life is in danger.
Chang, who won the division on a People’s National Party (PNP) ticket, told Observer Online that Maxwell’s murder brings to three the number of people in her division who have been killed in a matter of days.
Chang was speaking of the triple killing in Frome, in the parish. That incident also left four other people injured. Two of the men, she said, were on her campaign team.
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“It’s a very sad situation right now and Jamie, otherwise called ‘Biggs’, has been on the campaign with me,” Chang said of the murder.
Jeremy ‘Biggs’ Maxwell, 24, was shot dead and another injured in front of a funeral home on Dalling Street, Savanna-la-Mar on Saturday.
Reports are that Maxwell and his pillion were driving his bike in his community when he was shot and killed and his pillion shot and injured.
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Chang, a first-time councillor-elect, said the murders have left her in shock and in fear for her life because she too has been threatened.
“I was very shocked this evening when I heard of the killing of others who have been on my campaign; amongst myself who have been threatened many times,” she revealed while visiting the scene of crime on Saturday afternoon.
“I do not feel safe. I feel very naked right now and I need help. My children have not been in school. I am very worried right now,” Chang bemoaned.
It is for this reason she is calling on the relevant authorities to intervene, to bring some calm to Savanna-la-Mar.
“I am calling on the Superintendent of Police for the Westmoreland division and I am calling on everyone in Savanna-la-Mar; including the JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] supporters and I am calling on the PNP supporters. Everyone, we need to come together,” she urged.
She said the curtains have closed on the election and peace is what she is declaring.
“There is a clear winner and we need to come together and let this work. We need peace, no more killings in Savanna-la-Mar right now,” Chang pleaded.
-Kimberley Peddie
