10-year-old Shanai Coke
July 22, 2026
UPDATE: Police identify child killed gruesomely in Trelawny
TRELAWNY, Jamaica — The schoolgirl whose partially nude body was found with her throat slashed on a dirt track in bushes in Tyre district near Troy, Trelawny, Tuesday evening has been identified.
Police and residents named the child as 10-year-old Shanai Coke, otherwise called “Kaidra”, a Troy Primary student.
Police said following the discovery of the child’s body, there was a mob attack on a father and son in the community.
The son, identified as Delroy Coke, was killed in the incident.
Residents accused him of raping and killing the child. His father’s condition is not known.
— Kasey Williams
