ST JAMES, Jamaica – Rushawn Patterson has been charged with the murder of social media influencer, Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) made the announcement via its social media pages on Friday.

Allegations are that on Thursday, October 20, Townsend travelled from Kingston to Montego Bay where she was picked up by Patterson at approximately 7:30pm.

During the course of the evening, they visited a restaurant in Hanover and a guest house in St James, the JCF said.

At some point during the night, an argument developed between them, which resulted in Patterson strangling Townsend and disposing of her body, added the police in the statement.

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A 47-year-old security guard, Rohan Rose, otherwise called ‘Early B’ has been charged with misprision of a felony in the matter, the release said.

Townsend’s body was fished from the sea in Reading, St James on October 21.

Patterson was named a person of interest in her death in the days following the discovery and, after multiple appeals for him to turn himself over to the police, was held at a guest house during a high-level intelligence-driven operation on November 2.

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He was later charged for an unrelated case of Assault that occurred in the Saint Andrew South Police Division.