Mistaken identity leads to woman’s death
Residents of Farham Road in Olympic Gardens were plunged into mourning following the death of 25-year-old Shantol ‘Ce Ce’ Chance, who was killed on Monday in what her relatives believe was a case of mistaken identity.
Reports from the Olympic Gardens police are that at about 1:53 p.m., Chance, a mother of two, was selling grocery items in a shop when she was shot several times by a lone gunman.
Residents say Chance received several shots, including one that flew through her jaw bone.
The police were alerted and she was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Chance’s mother, Paula Williams, was still visibly shaken when our news team visited the community yesterday.
Williams said that she was more devastated to learn that her daughter died after she was mistaken for another woman.
Williams told THE STAR: “She was selling in the shop for somebody. She just come from school, she went to pick up her daughter, and what I understand is that the person come in and ask for a phonecard and she gave him. Then he ordered a juice and as she reach for the juice, that’s it; she not even get fi come back up.”
THE STAR was told that she was killed in front her two children, who, up to the time of our visit yesterday, had not received counselling.
Williams, who now has to care for them, is seeking help to ensure that the children won’t be affected.
Williams told our news team that she found out about the mistaken identity on Tuesday from the alleged intended victim.
She said: “She tell me say: ‘Paula a me dem come for’. Is like she know say somebody was after her. So is like dem send fi kill a woman but dem never say if a young or old. How you fi have idea that somebody after you and you make my daughter stay in there?”
LOVING AND JOVIAL
Williams said she will forever love and miss Shantol.
“It shock mi when she said it, enuh, but mi daughter wasn’t a troublemaker, so mi know a must mistake. Every minute mi walk go down where me come see her lay down, cause dem did put her outside because dem did a try help her to hospital,” Williams said.
Chance’s younger sister described her as fun loving and jovial.
“I still can’t believe I am here talking about her being dead,” she told THE STAR.
Williams told our news team that her daughter always promised to better herself and help take care of her.
“What I miss about her is that she used to help me. And is a thing weh she always say: Mommy, mi a go help you in life. She was always joking around and she take care of her kids and other children,” Williams said.
THE STAR learnt that there was some tension in the community earlier this year, however, residents could not say if it was linked to the killing.
Paula yuh is a Bomboclaart wicked!!May Shantol’s duppy ride yuh till eternity ends!That Demon gunman Fi live n suffer,want dead n can’t Dead!! Sincerest Condolences to Shantol’s loved ones.
YLT why are you cussing out the mother of the deceased? Are you mistaking her for the intended victim? I’m assuming that’s an oversight on your part? I know you to be fair for the most part…
Thanks much Nameless a di intended victim mi mean Fi cuss,oversight yes. My apologies n condolences to Paula.
I figured that much. It really set ah way if she knew the place hot and nuh warn the young lady.
This is the kinda thing that makes me wonder if we gonna see a better Jamaica
It might sound harsh but usually that’s how it is they wouldn’t want her no energy is there. Sorry you had to lose your baby girl but gain is right behind in whatever way God chooses.
Oh and don’t hold her responsible her doings was destined. Let her be.
R.I..P CC… Paula u know cc death is no mistake identity so stop the bullshit and talk the truth. CC death is link with her man shabba that the police kill last wk. Some time we has parents up hold too much slackness that dont mean it gives the gunman Dem the right to kill her in front of her kids. But growing up my mother always say show me u company.. The community know but a talk in a silence because they dont want to be next… When u live in a certain community u have to be careful who u sleep and mix up with. I’m just hoping the community step up and give up the killer…
Sad that this young mother lost her life. But why kill her when her man was killed by police? did the killers assume she gave him away? I hope the killer gets his heart’s desire to go Join his lover Shabba for Christmas if a suh. Unnu seh jamaica homophobic but things like this mek me wonder, how can you kill a woman because you in your feelings ova a man death?, that same man who would have probably ended up takin* your life if he had lived? Yuh must use to suck him hood..Zeeks was one of the baddest dons ever and he had all of Spanglers on his dick so we know how it go.