Heart-stopping tragedy - Love story ends in bloodshed at Dovecot

Tamia Williams was paralysed with terror on Monday as her boyfriend, Isaac Foster, was gunned down before her very eyes. Bullets fired by a licensed firearm holder sent him crumpling to the ground, and in a desperate bid to save his life, she used her blouse to try and stem the bleeding.

As Isaac fought for breath, Williams, her heart racing, frantically assisted police officers, her clothes soaked in his blood as he lay helplessly in her lap. Despite their best efforts, Isaac was pronounced dead at the Spanish Town Hospital just minutes after 3 p.m. Williams, only 21, still cannot believe he is gone.

"Mi still can't believe Isaac dead and mi still a wait on him to come back. I called him my husband, and he called mi his wife. The 1st of January would have been our second anniversary," she said, voice trembling.

The heartbreaking story began after Isaac inexplicably dashed from his home in Kitson Town, St Catherine, and made his way to the grave site of a woman at the Dovecot Cemetery. A bizarre episode unfolded, during which Isaac pulled the corpse from the coffin. Williams was there when he was shot.

"I am sorry I didn't get one of the shots. Dem shoulda just shot me too, so it be better this way. I always tell him say mi nuh want him dead before mi. I don't have a future without him as he was with me through everything, even when I was very sick. Isaac is my first everything in my life, and he is the last," Williams poured her heart out.

Williams recalled that the night before the tragedy, Isaac had been engrossed in his tablet, reading. "Every time I wake, I would see him reading in the chair, and one of the times he came in the bed and hugged mi up, but he was still up. When I wake up back, he had gone back to the chair and was still reading," she said, her voice breaking as she relived the peaceful moments before the chaos.

She added that when she told Isaac she was going to visit her mother, Isaac, always protective, tried to stop her.

"Him never want mi to go from the day before, and he was saying that he didn't want anything to happen to mi. We were there debating about it for a little while, and then he pushed the door and went out. I then got ready and went a few places to look for him but he wasn't there. I sent him a voice note to tell him that I was going to my mom, and 11:44, him text and say that I should come back. Mi a call and a text, and him nuh answer," she said.

Later, while she was at her mother's shop, Isaac showed up, but something was terribly wrong. His usual gentle demeanour was replaced with a wild, uncontrollable rage. Williams' mother, Tameka, described the transformation in horror.

"Him seh a mi daughter him a look for, and she should come. The rage that he was in, I told her that he could not go away with her like that. I have never seen him this aggressive or angry, as he is always full a manners. The person that I saw wasn't Isaac, it was like something wild took him over, and his eyes appeared different. I started asking for help, but I didn't get the help I needed to hold him so I could call the police," Tameka said.

Williams said that at one point her boyfriend screamed in horror and said he did not want to be sacrificed.

"I called his mother, but it was like she didn't understand what I was saying because he has never act like that. I tried my best not to aggravate him, so whatever he was saying I was agreeing with him . He then shout out that mi and my sister should let our mother call us by our first names only. Him start twirl mi and mi sister,' she said.

Seeing Isaac completely unhinged, Williams urgently called the police. "I told the police that we were moving because he was moving, and I didn't want to lose track of him. I left my sister behind because I didn't want anything to happen to her. Him walk fast, left mi, and then him reach a Dovecot; and after that, the police reached and he was on the wall," she said.

As she stood, helpless, talking to the police, Isaac leapt from the wall and bolted further into the cemetery.

"I'm near-sighted, so I couldn't see what was happening, but my sister screamed out and said that he was being beaten. So, at this time, the police drove off to the direction where he was. Mi run behind them," Williams explained.

The horror escalated as Isaac, in a frantic, deranged state, approached a casket. "The part where he opened the casket, I only saw that on video because I didn't get there in time. I know I heard some shots, and persons there were saying that the police don't know how to do dem job because dem should kill him. Mi just a wonder if dem never know say if dem shot him one time and him never drop, him eventually would, because a blood him a lose," she said.

Devastated and still in shock, Williams did everything she could to stop the bleeding. "I was in shock the entire time. I went over to Isaac, and I took off my shirt and put it on him to try and stop the bleeding. One of the police came over to help mi, and I helped them to take him to the police car. Isaac lay in my lap, and I had my shirt trying to stop the blood. He was bleeding from different places, so I had the shirt all over him," she added.