January 6, 2025
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a suspected hit-and-run driver who fatally injured a woman in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth on Sunday.
The deceased has been identified as 48-year-old Althea Gayle, a street sweeper of Santa Cruz.
It is understood that about 6:30 am, Gayle was walking along the Park main road to church when she was struck by a vehicle.
The driver of the vehicle did not stop and Gayle died of her injuries on the spot.
A relative of the deceased, Gene Hylton said she had heard the sound of the collision but was shocked and grief-stricken to learn that the victim was Gayle.
“We didn’t know that it was Althea, we own Althea… I don’t know which one of them hit her,” the distraught woman said as she tried to fight back tears.