Triple Murder Victim Plans To Launch Wig Business In December

Theonia Mantle broke down in tears Friday as she recalled how her daughter’s plan to start her own business was destroyed by gunmen.

His daughter, Kimberly Plummer, 23, was one of three people shot dead on Mandela Terrace, off Waltham Park Road in St Andrews, on August 30. The other two victims were identified as Derek Goodgames Jr and Anthony Bennett.

Four other people were reportedly shot and injured by gunmen driving a motor vehicle around 8pm during a wake in the community.

“Accounting was always Kimberly’s thing. She wanted to start her own business. She was supposed to open a store for herself in December. She loved fitting wigs and she said on the side she would sell the wigs and also sell other cosmetic items in the store,” Mantle told the
The Jamaica Observer Friday.

Mantle shared that she gets emotional with every memory of her daughter.

“Every time I try to talk to anyone about it, I break down. The only thing I can tell you is that the candle lighting was on the road,” she said.

“My daughter was on the street right there. That’s where it all happened to the right,” she said, pointing to the spot. “After the shooting, I ran out and saw her on the ground, and then I saw she was dead,” the mother said.

“She worked at Digicel and had just come home from work. I left her sitting on the pavement. It happened about five minutes after I walked away from her,” Mantle said.

She said that as she was walking away, her daughter said to her: “Mom, I never see you when you pass by, enough.”

“I told her I saw her on the street and I walked two doors down and I heard the explosions. They said it was a van, looked like a Prado. I didn’t see the vehicle. She was 23 and all she did was work and go home. She first worked at Flow in the office and then she left that office to join Digicel,” Mantle said.

“She worked mostly at home. One or two days a week she would go to the office to work. That Friday she went to the office to work. She came home and she had a friend in the store right here and she said she would come stay with her. She said she wouldn’t stay in the front. Instead she stayed in the lane right here on a chair. Even though she avoided the front she still got caught,” the mother said, describing her daughter as a bright young woman who was a former student at Meadowbrook High School and St. Peter Claver Elementary School.