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April 8, 2011
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Murder-suicide shocks residents and cops

Residents gather to discuss the gruesome incident in Three Hill, St Mary, yesterday. - Norman Grindley

COPS WHO served alongside detective corporal Wayne Llewellyn while he was stationed with the Area Two police, are shocked by the his murderous actions.

Llewellyn yesterday killed his mother-in-law Rachel Brown, 79, father-in-law Voldy Brown, 73, his brother-in-law Fitzroy Townsend, and his stepdaughter Jorjhan Flynnat, 16, in Three Hills, St Mary, yesterday.

He also shot his 40-year-old wife in the neck and then killed himself after failing to break into the house of other family members to satisfy his thirst for blood.

Reverend Roy Wickham, Chaplain for Area Two, said: "The whole situation would have caused numbness, disappointment and shock. It is a sad day, it is very disappointing and the fact is that Mr Llewellyn, what we know of him while he was in Area Two, was not a man who talked a lot ... We are all disappointed as to what has happened".

Llewellyn's wife, who was in the process of filing for divorce, had recently moved out of their marital home in Manchester and taken her daughter back to the quiet St Mary community in a bid to escape an abusive relationship.

Days leading up to yesterday's incident postings on his Facebook page suggest Llewellyn was facing struggles in his relationship.

Residents stung by the killings, said the Browns were nice people who should not have met such an end.

One woman told THE WEEKEND STAR that Mrs Brown had become fearful that Llewellyn could kill her and members of her family.

Wednesday evening she reportedly telephoned one of her church sisters to say she felt the angel of death was near.

"About 4 she called me and said 'dem threaten wi enuh. Wah mi ago do Sister Hylton?' I said to her 'don't stay there go and report it at the (police) station and don't sleep there'," a member of the Retreat Seventh-day Adventist Church said.

According to the church sister, the the elderly woman was defiant. "She said she is not going to leave the house. She said was going to take it to the Lord in prayer," the Church sister added.

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