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The Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF) is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding two recent suicides on island.<\/p>\n
According to reports from Inspector Fixton Henderson, on Thursday, April 6, 2023, about 5PM the lifeless body of a male, identified as 48-year-old Sammer Elias of Washington USA was found hanging by his neck, tied to the ceiling in a cabin on a yacht.<\/p>\n
He said the yacht which was owned and captained by Elias was anchored in the Caribbean Sea about 75 feet outside of Lalay Coco, Castle Comfort at the time of discovery.<\/p>\n
The body was transported to the Dominica-China Friendship Hospital (DCFH) where it was examined and pronounced dead by a medical doctor that same evening.<\/p>\n
Elias’ body is being kept at a funeral home pending an autopsy.<\/p>\n
Meantime, police are conducting investigations into another suicide that occurred at Goodwill.<\/p>\n
Inspector Henderson reported that on Saturday, April 8, 2023, at about 1PM, the lifeless body of 28-year-old Shervon Isidore of Franklyn Lane, Goodwill was found hanging by his neck tied to a rafter of a roof of a dilapidated house at Franklyn Lane, Goodwill.<\/p>\n
Isidore occupied a section of that house.<\/p>\n
He was examined and pronounced dead by a medical doctor that same afternoon at the scene.<\/p>\n
His body was transported to a funeral home for safe-keeping pending an\u00a0autopsy.<\/p>\n
The CDPF expresses its sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF) is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding two recent suicides on island. According to reports from Inspector Fixton Henderson, on Thursday, April 6, 2023, about 5PM the lifeless body of a male, identified as…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":301444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,301,77,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-tragedy","category-death","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n