The abandoned house in St Ann, in which 16-year-old Nisa Grant was killed on Thursday night. - Photo by Carl Gilchrist

A 17-year-old second-year student of the Brown's Town Community College is to be charged with murder following intensive police investigations into the death of a teenage girl of Mount Edgecombe, Runaway Bay, Thursday evening in Brown's Town, St Ann.

"He will most definitely be charged by the end of the day or by the weekend," Deputy super-intendent at the Brown's Town Police Station, Edgar Brown, told The Gleaner yesterday.

The suspect was taken into custody for questioning after he reported that he and the girl, 16-year-old, grade 10 York Castle High School student, Nisa Grant, were attacked by two men in the community as they took a short cut Thursday evening.

Stab wounds

Grant's body was discovered after 6 p.m. with several stab wounds and her throat slashed.

According to the police, the deceased and the suspect previously shared a relationship, which she ended in December 2008.

This, the police claim, led to the suspect attacking and killing the teenager.

The police allege that "Grant, in an effort to end the relationship, proposed a casual relationship with the suspect. He took this very hard and he purchased a knife and communicated with her sometime in the afternoon and made arrangements for her to visit him at home. He met her along a lonely path, took her to an abandoned building where he stabbed her several times and slit her throat".

The police also confirmed that bloodstained clothes, allegedly belonging to the suspect, were found some distance away, near a cemetery.

The police theorise that after committing the act, the suspect changed his clothes before visiting the station.

His report, according to the police, was that he and the girl were taking a short cut through premises housing an abandoned two-storey building, shortly after 6 p.m., when they were attacked by two men. He managed to escape, but the girl was not so lucky.

Grant's fully clothed body was discovered on the upper floor of the building.

The death sent shock waves through the town, with several persons expressing anger.

When The Gleaner visited the murder scene Thursday night, several persons were still seen milling around the house, but were kept at bay by the police tape.

The body was eventually removed close to midnight.