- Norman Grindley /Deputy Chief Photographer
Terry Morgan sobs as she holds the six-month-old baby she has with Special Constable Wayne Christian, who shot and killed his girlfriend Donna Messam, a practical nurse. Christian then turned the gun on himself at their Harizon Park home, Spanish Town, St. Catherine. She is being consoled by this man after she turned up on the scene yesterday.

Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer

Spanish Town, St. Catherine:

A special constable shot his girlfriend to death early yesterday morning before turning the weapon on himself fatally.

The gruesome act unfolded along Tropical Drive, in Horizon Park, St Catherine.

It is reported that about 6:15 a.m. yesterday, Special Constable Wayne Christian 23, of the Spanish Town Police Station, shot and killed 31-year-old practical nurse Donna Messam of Comarty near Horizon Park.

Explosions

Explosions were heard and persons who went to investigate found Christian and Messam in a pool of blood, with gunshot wounds to their heads and upper bodies.

A distraught colleague of Christian reported hearing four explosions, a brief interval then one more explosion.

"When mi kick off the door, mi see Wayne and Donna in a pool of blood," said the colleague who lives at the house where the killing occurred.

Terry Morgan, the mother of a six-month-old child she had with Christian, wept uncontrollably.

"Mi no believe seh a him kill himself. Wayne would not do such a thing. A still caan believe," she sobbed.

The policeman's father, Robert Christian, describes his son as quiet, but one who could get quite irritable at times.

Second incident

Meanwhile, head of the St. Catherine North Crime Office, Neveral Smith, said that the police recovered a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver along with four spent shells and two live rounds.

He told the Gleaner that the lawman had been on the force for less than three years and had been recently issued with the firearm as he had been assigned duties to guard a judge.

This is the second time since the start of the year that a policeman is reported to have killed his girlfriend and himself.

In February, Corporal Ezra Dennis of the Special Anti-Crime Task Force shot his girlfriend to death in Eltham View, St. Catherine, before turning the weapon on himself.