KINGSTON, Jamaica - Police in Jamaica are investigating the slaying of a New York teenager who vanished along with her cousin.
Assistant Commissioner Derrick Knight said Saturday that detectives have seized two vehicles in connection withthe double homicides. They also have identified someone who they think knows something about the crimes and have urged him to surrender to police.
Police said 19-year-old Franciena Johnson of Brooklyn, N.Y., and her 18-year-old cousin Nadia Fearon vanishedlast week. Police later found their bodies floating in a salt marsh along the southern coast. Johnson’s body had gunshot wounds.
Johnson was born in Jamaica but moved to the United States as a child. She was in Jamaica to visit her grandmother.
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