Monday, August 26, will forever be a day of sorrow for the town of Falmouth in Trelawny, Jamaica. On this tragic day, 16-year-old Jahmari Reid, a promising student of William Knibb Memorial High School, met an untimely death. Jahmari, known for his love of the sea, had decided to embark on a solo fishing trip, a common activity for the young boy who had been nurtured by the waves and tides from an early age.
The following day, the community was shaken to its core as news spread of Jahmari's decapitated body being discovered.
His head and left hand were missing, reportedly the terrifying result of a shark attack.
The teenager was a grade 10 student at William Knibb Memorial High School, and was getting ready to go into grade 11, his mother, Lavern Robinson, told the Jamaica Star.
"Right now [I] don't know what to say. Jahmari has been going to sea from him small," she added to the publication.
Per the Jamaica Observer, fisherman Christopher Reynolds said a group of divers had discovered Jahmari's remains and brought him to Falmouth Fishing Beach on Tuesday morning.
Reynolds said he'd been told a "big" tiger shark had been spotted in the water near where Jahmari's body was located, but divers hadn't managed to catch the animal, the outlet stated.
“I can’t believe that he went to sea by himself ... and that was the outcome. Sad to know. I feel so bad,” Jahmari's father, Michael Reid, told the publication.
Another fisherman told Loop Jamaica News, "I have been fishing for years and this never happened in Falmouth. If you are spearfishing and you have a string of fish and a shark start circling let go of the string and give him."President of Falmouth Fisherfolks Benevolent Society, Fritz Christie, said this was the first time in recent history that a person had been killed in the Trelawny area, per the Jamaica Observer.
Christie thinks the shark might have followed a cruise ship in, and "did not leave the area," the outlet reported.Jahmari's school's vice principal, Audrey Steele, described the late teen as "just a quiet boy," per the Jamaica Star.
"He has never been before me for any disciplinary problem," she told the outlet.
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