Linden woman who went missing is found dead in a shallow grave in boyfriend’s yard. The gruesome discovery was made 03:50 hrs today. The police are reporting that the victim’s juvenile sister and the father of the suspect are accessory to the crime.
Shonnette Dover, aged 20-years, a bartender of Canvas City Wismar Linden went missing on the 3rd April 2021. Her partially decomposed body was found in her boyfriend’s yard this morning in a shallow grave at Canvas City Wismar Linden.
The police are reporting based on information received, ranks contacted the 15-year-old sister of the deceased and between 23:35 hours on April 29 and 00:01 hours today, detectives – in the presence of a Child Care and Probation Officer – ať Wismar Police Station Criminal Investigation Department, subjected the teenager to a video interview, during which she was told of an allegation, cautioned in accordance with the Judge’s Rules and provided a statement.
Information provided alleges that on the night the victim went ‘missing’, her boyfriend was oiling ‘his brownish gun in their living room’. He then pointed the gun at the victim who told him ‘he likes to play and he should put away that thing.’ The sister says she then heard a sound like a squib and he (suspect) said ‘oh shoots, I shoot that girl’. She then saw Shonette’s mouth open and blood on her face and she said to Shaquawn, ‘let’s take her to the hospital’ and he said “no she dead already”.
The child according to the police, accompanied the suspect to his father and told him what he did, and his father told him ‘don’t tell (me) stupidness, why (you) playing with the gun?’
They subsequently left and collected a spade from a man and dug a hole aback the house where the victim was buried. The suspect then hid the gun. In the wee hours of this morning, with directions from the teenager, ranks went into action and dug up the area about four feet down during which they stumbled upon the body of a female, partly decomposed. Due to the decomposed state of the body, it was difficult to see any marks of violence on the most exposed parts of the body the police report said.
The body is now at the Pensioners Mortuary where it is being stored awaiting Post Mortem Examination. The teenager sister and boyfriend’s father are in police custody pending investigation. boyfriend is on the run.