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Senior Sergeant Iyo Malone
The tragic and highly suspicious death of a police officer while on duty inside a police station should have prompted an immediate, thorough, and independent investigation.
Instead, what we are witnessing is an unprofessional and reckless rush to label the incident as a suicide—without forensic proof, without an official autopsy, and without transparency. This approach is not only irresponsible but deeply damaging to public trust.
How can the authorities declare this a suicide without conducting basic investigative procedures? Have all officers present at the station been tested for gunshot residue? Was the scene properly secured and examined for evidence of foul play? Are there surveillance recordings to corroborate the official narrative? The refusal to treat this case with the seriousness it demands raises more questions than answers.
This is not an ordinary case—it involves a police officer dying under highly questionable circumstances within the walls of a police station.
If such an incident can be swept under the rug so quickly, what does that say about justice in this country? If the system cannot be trusted to properly investigate the death of one of its own, how can the public have any faith that it will deliver justice for ordinary citizens?
The government and police leadership must understand that trust in law enforcement is earned through transparency and accountability, not through hastily crafted public statements.
Until a full, independent investigation is conducted and the results made public, the people have every right to question the legitimacy of this so-called suicide. The truth must come out—because anything less is an outright betrayal of justice.
An investigating is ongoing and I hope all your questions will be answered then
They will tell us what they think we should know
I respectfully call for a thorough investigation of this female officer’s alleged suicide. I understand that the deceased officer was trained in forensics, a qualification that would have made her a key asset in the ongoing search for Chantel Crump who had been abducted less than two days prior. Did she have knowledge of a forensic nature about that and other investigations into the mysterious disappearances of Antiguan young people in the recent past?
Also, is it a fact that the young man from the Yorks area who, prior to Chantal’s abduction, was Antigua’s latest missing person, reputed to be a nephew of the deceased female officer?? Mere coincidence???
Further, is it true that the weapon used in the alleged suicide did not belong/had not been assigned to the deceased officer but rather to another (female) officer who happened to be at the crime scene at the time of the unfortunate incident?
Sure, it appears to have been public knowledge (especially in police circles)that the deceased officer was experiencing depressing marital problems. What did the Police Welfare Association do once they labeled this officer a “mental case”? Mr recommendation is to allow whatever forensic specialists are imported to conduct further investigations into the abduction and murder of Chantal Crump be assigned to investigate, in full, the circumstances leading to the shooting death of the female officer.
I would say negligence. This woman being mentally unstable for sometime and has been requesting retirement as she knows she didn’t have what was need to carry out the job! And they denied her request.