Man gunned down weeks before his wedding

On Monday, Canadian Angella and her Jamaican fiance Robert Wilson were supposed to pick up her best friend Kelly, who was supposed to be her maid of honour at the couple's wedding in Morant Bay, St Thomas, this Friday.

Angella was not only looking forward to exchange wedding vows with Wilson, the love of her life, but her thoughts were also on two days later - Sunday, when as newlyweds, they would be off on a romantic honeymoon getaway, which would coincide with her 46 birthday. Unfortunately, Angella is consumed with grief, as she is now making funeral arrangements for Wilson, who was shot and killed on March 20.

"It's hard being in Jamaica but at the same time I feel so much closer to him when I am here. Imagine he is going to be buried in his wedding outfit ... it just doesn't make any sense to me," said the weeping Angella. According to police reports, Wilson was shot along Retirement Road, in Kingston, by unknown assailants. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Angella said she met Wilson, a security officer, via TikTok in 2022 and over time, their friendship turned into a love affair.

"He sent me a DM (direct message on Instagram), but it took me about a month before I saw it. I responded and we just started talking and that's how our love started," said Angella. "What I loved about him was that he didn't change, and he was the same person that I fell in love with online. I met him in person about five months later and he was the same person, who treated and talk to me with respect." On that same trip to Jamaica, Wilson proposed to Angella on a beach in Ocho Rios.

"He was talking to security guards, and I thought we were in trouble but the whole time he was planning the proposal," recalled Angella. "When he came back to me, he told me to close my eyes and when I did, he was down on one knee and he told me he loved me, and he wanted to be with me for the rest of his life. He just asked me to marry him, and I said yes."

"I started crying, because I knew he was the one for me. I was in love with him, and he was a very mature man. He wasn't the type who wanted anything from me. He worked very hard, and he was a provider. I called him an old soul because he was so mature," said Angella. "We were planning to buy a house and start a business. I wanted to bring him to Canada, and he was going to work, and we would save to just build our life. We didn't have any plans of having any more children as both of us had grown kids and I have a couple of grandchildren. We were just going to enjoy life and be a blended family."

Angella said that on the morning her fiance was killed, she knew something was off when he did not respond to any of her messages. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw an incoming call from one of his sisters, but nothing could have prepared her for the news.

"When she told me he was shot I just started screaming and I just keep shouting that this could not be happening. At the time I didn't know he had died. He was stationed in Kingston at a location and had just left his job when he was killed," she said.

As she mourns Wilson, Angella finds a bit of comfort on TikTok, the platform on which they met. She continues to share episodes of their love story, sometimes breaking down in tears.

"I am sad, devastated, angry and heartbroken. My heart is ripped in a million pieces and laying on the ground and I don't know how to start picking it up. My brain feels mush sometimes and there are times when I am still in denial as he should be here with me," added Angella.