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Guyanese teacher found stabbed to death in Bahamas apartment
A 34-year-old Guyana-born teacher was found murdered in her Summer Street, Nassau Village, Bahamas apartment at around 09.00 hrs yesterday.
Police outside the apartment complex where female educator Marisha Bowen (inset) was murdered (Bahamas Press photo)
The Bahamas Press reported that Marisha Bowen, who taught at the Charles Saunders High School, appeared to have been stabbed multiple times. All the apartment doors were reportedly locked.
“There was no forced entry into the apartment, and from evidence now being sketched out, the suspect[s] on the run may be known to the victim,” the Bahamas Press stated.
The report indicated that Bowen, who has a 16-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter, may have been slain shortly after 07:00 hrs, since it was at around this time that “loud screams were heard in the community from the complex, after what was thought to be a domestic dispute inside.”
According to the report, no one called the police, who only arrived at around 09.00 hrs, after Mrs. Bowen failed to show up at work. The owner of the apartment assisted the police in gaining access to the locked premises.
The victim’s mother, Princess Earle, a retired member of the Guyana Police Force, told Kaieteur News that she spoke to her daughter at around 07.15 hrs yesterday. This indicates that the two spoke minutes before Marisha Bowen was slain.
Mrs. Earle said that while her daughter gave no hint of being fearful for her life, the young woman sounded “depressed.”
A distraught Mrs. Earle said that she checked her phone at around 11:30 hrs, and saw that she had received a message from another daughter, who lives in France.
“She sent a message saying ‘Mom where are you…are you sitting down?’
“When I saw that message I knew that it was a ‘death message.’”
She then saw that Marissa’s 16-year-old son had sent another message in which he said that his mother was dead.
The son had reportedly learnt of his mother’s murder while he was in class.
Mrs. Earle said that Marissa’s ten-year-old daughter was in Guyana on holiday, and boarded a flight for the Bahamas yesterday morning, before news of her mother’s death broke.
She revealed that her daughter, who she described as being “very friendly and very helpful,” taught at several schools in Guyana before migrating to the Bahamas three years ago.
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