POLICE have detained a former beauty queen and two other women in connection with the death of reigning Miss Mocha Beauty Queen, Kenisha Baird, on Monday night.
Baird, 18, a former student of the Charlestown Secondary School died shortly after 21:00 hrs after three women, who all reside in Mocha, allegedly beat her.
One of the suspects is a former Miss Mocha Arcadia.
There are reports that the fight was triggered by a previous dispute between Baird and one of the women.
According to reports, Baird and the suspects were walking in Mocha Village at around 21:00 hrs after leaving a children’s party, when an argument broke out between Baird and one of the females.
It is alleged that the women and Baird began to fight.
A male friend of the victim said that he was at the Mocha Fore Corner when he heard a commotion.
Upon investigating, he saw Kenisha and one of the women fighting in a gutter.
The man said he successfully parted that fight and was about to take Kenisha home when she told him she wanted to put on her boots, which had fallen off during the fight.
The eyewitness said he turned around to speak with someone but by the time he returned his attention to Kenisha, she was some distance away in another fight with two more women.
He said, when he reached the scene, Kenisha was on the ground in a seemingly unconscious state.
“I bent down and put my ears to her heart but there was no sound. I put her in my bus and take her to de hospital but they said she was dead already,” the eyewitness stated.
Kaieteur News understand that the victim’s mother has given police a written statement in which she said that her daughter was diagnosed with a heart ailment at the age of 12 and had recently seen a doctor.
The mother of the dead beauty queen, Annette Wharton, 41, of 547 Mocha Housing Scheme, said she received the message about her daughter’s demise at around 21:00 hrs, Monday night.
Ms Wharton said she last spoke to her daughter around 19:00 hrs when Kenisha told her she was going to pick up some friends for them to go to the seamstress.
“Kenisha was going to take her measurements for the dress she was going to wear for the Miss East Bank Talented Teen pageant.
“Apparently they didn’t want her to take part in the pageant because they know she is a strong contender. That is the problem they had with her”, the mother said.
However, one of the dead girl’s friends said that Kenisha had a dispute with one of the suspects last week relating to a joke she made with the girl’s boyfriend.
Kaieteur News understands that Kenisha would have celebrated her 19th birthday on Friday.
“Ow girl, you could only imagine how I feel right now. Kenisha was my only daughter, my one and only daughter,” the victim’s mother sobbed.
Kenisha, who was a contestant for the upcoming Miss East Bank Talented Teen pageant, leaves to mourn two brothers. A post-mortem on the body is expected to be carried out today.
- The three women who were allegedly involved in the beating to death of the beauty queen are in police custody at the East La Penitence lock up. Police are continuing investigations into the matter.