The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

A WOMAN was admitted to Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre yesterday morning after she allegedly threatened to commit suicide, police said.

According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean, police received an anonymous call that a woman was threatening to drown herself in waters off Potter’s Cay Dock.

“Police responded and they saw a woman in her vehicle parked on the dock. She was locked in the car, crying and obviously distressed,” ACP Dean said.

“The officers spoke to her, calmed her down and managed to get her to open the door and speak to them. She was obviously in a state of depression. She was taken to hospital for treatment and then admitted to Sandilands.”

This suicide threat comes almost one month after it was suspected that a woman drove herself and her two children off the Montagu Ramp.

Shemicka McKinney and her two daughters Alisa, 3, and Gabrielle, 6, died when the car they were in plunged into the sea on March 22. The cause of the deaths have not yet been classified by police, who have been awaiting autopsy results. The three victims were buried on Saturday.

Police have urged people to be on the lookout for warning signs of suicide, such as talking about it or having feelings of helplessness or worthlessness.

For more information on suicide, contact police at 919 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS (New Providence), 1-300-8476 (Family Island), or if you know of individuals who may be in need of counselling and emotional support, contact the Department of Social Services’s hotline number at 322-2763 or the Crisis Centre at 328-0922 or 322-4999.