A horrified uncle has described finding his nephew ‘without a head’ after the boy was decapitated by a tiger shark off Jamaica.
Jahmari Reid, 16, had gone spearfishing by himself near the popular tourist town of Montego Bay on Monday when he vanished, according to local police.
The high school student’s mauled body was recovered with his head and left arm reportedly bitten off by his horrified uncle and other divers who volunteered for the search on Tuesday morning.
HOW IT HAPPENED
‘When we [found] him, his hand [was on] one side and then we [found] his body [on the other side] without a head,’ Jahmari’s mourning uncle, Robert Robinson, who has been a local fisherman for nearly 28 years, told the Jamaica Observer.
He added to the Jamaica Star he ‘found the body all bitten up by the shark.’
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
Robert said that when Jahmari’s body was taken to the surface, the massive tiger shark he believes to have killed his nephew swam by. Him and the other divers shot at the shark, hoping to kill it and recover Jahmari’s head, but they missed.
The fisherman thinks that Jahmari died after catching a big fish and thereby attracting the shark’s attention, who reportedly went on to decapitate the 16-year-old.
Pictures from the scene showed scores of horrified locals gathering at the beach in the town of Falmouth on the island’s northern coast.
