Detectives assigned to the Port Maria Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB) have formally charged 22-year-old Constable Patric Walters, who is accused of killing his girlfriend and then attempting to take his own life.
Twenty-year-old D’Jonnay Graham was shot and killed on June 25 in Beecham Hill, Flint River, St Mary. Graham, an assistant teacher, lived with the constable at her family home where the incident occurred.
Walters allegedly shot himself in the head after shooting Graham during a domestic dispute. According to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), a file on the incident was submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for a ruling. The DPP subsequently ruled on July 17 that Constable Walters be charged with the offences of murder and using a firearm to commit a felony.
Following the ruling, Walters was charged on Monday after he was released from the hospital and is now in police custody. Graham once told her mother that Walters was controlling and abusive, and he reportedly threw away her phone prior to the day of her death.
Graham and Walters reportedly got into a dispute on the day of her murder after she had received a phone call from an unknown individual who asked if she had reached home safely. According to Graham’s mother, Euon Douglas-Graham, she had to intervene as Walters allegedly bent her daughter’s hand behind her back during their domestic dispute.
Douglas-Graham shared that she was sitting in her living room when Walters allegedly shot her daughter on the verandah.
