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And late this evening we also got to speak with Jasmine’s grandmother and aunt in Belize City. Her grandmother took care of her and raised her as a child but it is only recently that Jasmine left to go live with her mother in Mahogany Heights. Today Jasmine’s family told us what they suspect could have happened and expressed how broken the family will be now without their Jasmine.  

Judith Petillo - Grandmother of Deceased
"Whatever they do to my granddaughter, who ever do it God no the sleep; da man up there see whe di happen and always he will know what to do. Now you can't think about justice because that you no wa get you understand me so you put everything inna god’s hand mommy. Da mi granddaughter, I wa miss ah because then she always say gran when you get sick I will mind you, I will take care of you and now mi granddaughter no wa di deh to mind me again you understand me. I miss mi granddaughter so bad and ih just happen but I feel it to mi heart, I can't take it, I just can't take it miss. She mi have a lee dispute at Mahogany Height I hear with some people and ih mi had a lee case thing and they mi crowd ah, 3 of them crowd ah and they jump ah and self-defence but she help ihself, she mi do they something and we no know if that da the payback for what they do to ah or da something else whe mi happen long time I mi hear da Mahogany Heights because all kind of things happen da Mahogany Heights."

Sharlette Gabriel - Aunt of Deceased
"When I gone see my niece this morning when they bring ah my niece deh with ih hand up like this; you see like ih mi the fight for ih life and thing. But the amount of stab whe ih get you can't even count the stab they whe ih get all up inna ih breast, all ah ih side. Come on mien that da like a passion of death my niece get, that ruthless you know we really hurt about it you know, we just hope that the police do something about it but like I say we leave everything to god, we leave everything inna god's hand you know but we really hurt mien."

The incident Petillo is talking about allegedly happened a couple weeks ago when Jasmine got into a confrontation with 4 women in the village. Reports are that Jasmine was detained in relation to that incident. We will keep following up with police and try to get more concrete answers as to why 17 year old Jasmine was killed.