Teen found dead on Port Royal road

Approximately 18 hours after she twice pranked one of her nephews that she was dead, Shamoya Miller truly passed away, leaving her family shattered, desperate and angry.

The 17-year-old's body was found along the Port Royal main road in Kingston on Thursday about 9:30 a.m. The police say that about 6:45 p.m. Shamoya left home to visit a friend on Wild Street. However, after a few hours, relatives grew concerned when repeated calls to the teen's cell phone went unanswered sometime around 11 p.m. A body fitting her description was found along the roadway. Shamoya's sister, Michelle Riley, 27, was distraught at the family home in Allman Town, Kingston.

"Yesterday [Wednesday] when I came home she said to me, 'Michelle, yuh know me prank Jazzier say mi dead and mi ketch him reaction. Him cry, him cry, him cry! Him slap me inna me face and open me eye and say mi fi wake up', and that's the part that really tear me up," she said, adding that Shamoya then did it again. She said that her sister was eating dinner when she suddenly decided to leave the house, saying "Mi a go round a Wild Street".

"Mi never reprimand har or say anything because true wi used to live a Wild Street she still have har friends there, so me never have a problem because she go round there regularly and come back," Riley said. However, she said she became suspicious when her daughter returned home without Shamoya. The teen reportedly left her friend to go to Arnold Road to meet up with a man.

"Shamoya's friend told me that she came and talk to her a little on her balcony when she got a call, she said she answered the phone and said to the person 'me a come'," Riley said. Shamoya was to return to Kingston Technical High School this Tuesday to resit two exams.

"She wanted to do nursing by School of Excellence but she was iffy, so I told her to try a few subjects first before going there," Riley said. She said that their mother is in Canada and Shamoya's dad is in Trelawny.

"As the eldest for my mother, mi talk to Shamoya, always encouraging her the right way. How me deal with Shamoya is like me is her mother, because I always tell her say 'I don't take care of my two children them like how I take care of you'. I even go as far to say 'Shamoya, if yuh have anything to share, share it with me. The best person you should be talking to is me but she don't share anything'," she said.

"Yesterday she had a conversation with her mother for about an hour and she was telling her to behave herself and holding up her head and focused on school," she said.