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(This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/busifwrh/sbtips.co.uk/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114This list of eight facts looks at what we know about her short life, her untimely death, and the aftermath of the murder.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what happened to Stacy Wilson?<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Monday, December 11, 2006, Wilson was attacked on a bus and in the bus terminal lot in Kingstown, Saint Vincent by a machete-wielding assailant. Stacy Williams bus crime photos The man, Shorn Samuel, chopped off Wilson\u2019s right hand\u2026and then beheaded her. He was detained by stunned onlookers, some of whom also took some very shocking, graphic photos<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stacy Wilson<\/a> and Shorn Samuel both lived in the small farming town of Vermont, which is just 12 miles north of Kingstown, the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel also goes by the names Sean Samuel and Abdul Rahim Parsons, as well as the nickname Muslim Islamaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel visited his distant cousin Wilson and her family on a regular basis. Soon enough, though, the visits started to take a creepy turn. Samuel, who was 14 years older, told Wilson he wanted her to be his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilson, who was clearly unnerved by Samuel, told him not to visit their home anymore. He apologized for his behavior and continued to make regular visits. Stacy Williams bus crime photos His apologies turned out to be hollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Wilson\u2019s mother, Emelia Nanton, Samuel came to visit <\/a>Wilson before she left for work and started \u201cmolesting\u201d her. Before she left for work, he often told her, \u201cI love you and you have to be my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the man was undaunted and unmoved by Wilson\u2019s demands to be left in peace, Nanton said she threw a bowl of Clorox in Samuel\u2019s face to make him leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the afternoon of Monday, December 11, 2006, Wilson was sitting in an idling minibus at the Leeward bus terminal in Kingstown. She was on her way home, having just finished a long, stressful day working as a hospital clerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel had visited her at work. He\u2019d tried to get her attention. He even asked if he could speak with her for a minute in private. \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk to you,\u201d <\/a>she said.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Someone who had been watching the interaction confronted Samuel and asked him if he knew Wilson. He said she was his cousin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilson left work around 3:45 that afternoon to catch the minibus that would take her home to Vermont. Witnesses recall seeing Samuel walking closely behind, trying in vain to speak with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two boarded the bus. While the minibus was idling, Samuel wouldn\u2019t leave Wilson alone; she got up and moved, sitting next to another woman. Samuel tried to speak to Wilson again, but she told him to leave her alone. Wilson got up again and sat directly behind the bus driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel stood up and walked toward the front of the bus. A cutlass (a short saber with a curved blade) that still had a price tag on it fell out of his back right pocket. He grabbed it, put it back in his pocket, and stood by the front door of the bus, where the cousins continued to argue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel then took the cutlass out and began chopping at Wilson. Wilson fell into the driver\u2019s lap, but then jumped out of the window, fleeing for her life. Stacy Williams bus crime photos Her first instinct<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>was to hide under the bus for her safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel gave chase, chopping as he ran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the trial, one witness said Samuel dragged the terrified Wilson out from under the bus and chopped off her right hand at the wrist. As she fell to the ground, he began chopping at her neck. Horribly, he nearly sawed off her head until it was hanging by a piece of skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The deranged Samuel then held up the head, chopped away the piece of remaining skin, kissed Wilson\u2019s face, and threw the head onto the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When police arrived, Wilson\u2019s decapitated head was found 15 feet away from her body; her hand was another 20 feet away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shorn Samuel, knowing the police had arrived, placed the bloodied cutlass on the ground, fell to his knees, and placed his hands on his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The murderer apparently showed no guilt. He even saluted the crowd as he was taken away by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One week later, on Tuesday, December 19, friends, family, and strangers gathered to celebrate the life of Stacy Wilson at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Vermont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her mother, Emelia Nanton, was a pillar of strength throughout<\/a> the funeral. Wilson\u2019s co-workers, friends, and family spoke of her life and how her death had left an unrepairable hole in their hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pastor Terrance Haynes delivered a eulogy where he called for everyone to take their own lives more seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis life we share is God\u2019s life; life is precious,\u201d he said. Stacy Williams bus crime photos He added that we need to look beyond this world to the spiritual realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe enemy is mingling among the innocent human beings; he is trying to get back at God. Life is getting cheap. We need to get back to a state of normalcy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Haynes also lambasted those who spread the horrific images of Wilson\u2019s body all over the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afterward, there was a long procession from the church to the cemetery. In the drizzling rain, people sang songs and dedicated choruses to Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The small Caribbean group of islands known as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a population of just 110,000. And yet Stacy Wilson was not the first beheading victim in the eastern Caribbean country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In January 2003, the headless body of 68-year-old Albert Browne was discovered near a banana field in the southern Saint Vincent region of Marriaqua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the footprints left behind, detectives found Browne\u2019s head 300 feet away, buried in a banana hole and wrapped in a pair of pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the time, it was considered to be one of the worst murders in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel Trimmingham was convicted of murder. Stacy Williams<\/a> bus crime photos He died in prison in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the months following his arrest for Stacy Wilson\u2019s murder, Shorn Samuel demanded that he be transferred to a single prison cell for his own safety. He did not like being harassed by fellow prisoners and officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel also demanded that new trial documents be given to him because the ones he had were torn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And he accused lawyer Ronald Marks of threatening him with an additional three years in prison if Samuel didn\u2019t retain him. This was an odd claim since Marks wasn\u2019t his attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The increasingly difficult prisoner also announced would not be standing for the national anthem when it played at the institution, since his grandfather never did. \u201cI am keeping with my principles. I don\u2019t blame you. Do what you know,\u201d Samuel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Justice Gertel Thom replied that once Samuel was a guest at Her Majesty\u2019s prison, he would have to abide by its rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of Samuel\u2019s theatrics were in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, October 15, 2008, the 12-person jury handed down a unanimous verdict. Shorn Samuel was found guilty of Stacy Wilson\u2019s murder and sentenced to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Samuel was never executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Amrie Morris-Patterson, the senior registrar at the Mental Health Centre, told the court that Samuel had a long history of mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1996, Samuel was admitted to the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn, New York for persecutory delusion and acute psychotic episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In January 2002, Samuel was admitted to the Mental Health Centre in Kingstown for a 20-day assessment after breaking a window at the National Commercial Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel claimed he was at the bank to get the money that was being transferred to him from Saudi Arabia. It never arrived and he got angry. On top of that, he alleged that the police were after him because they were jealous. Samuel also claimed he was being persecuted because he was a Muslim living in Saint Vincent, and people thought he was related to Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday, December 12, 2006, the day after Samuel hacked Wilson to death, he was interviewed by Dr. Morris-Patterson. The doctor observed that Samuel was reluctant at first to answer any questions. Samuel maintained that the only reason he had been arrested was that he is Muslim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stephen Williams, Samuel\u2019s defense attorney, asked if it was possible that his client had experienced a psychiatric episode when he hacked Wilson to death. Dr. Morris-Patterson said it was highly unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the history of mental issues, Dr. Morris-Patterson noted that Shorn Samuel had been smoking cannabis since the age of 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel appealed his death sentence, successfully. His murder conviction was overturned; he was convicted of manslaughter instead, by reason of diminished responsibility. His death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not the end of the saga. Although Shorn Samuel was sent to prison, drama and tragedy continued to follow his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Monday, April 15, 2013, Rosette Samuel, the sister of Shorn and an off-duty officer of the New York Police Department, shot and killed her (possibly former) boyfriend before he was scheduled to leave for Guyana. She then murdered her infant son before turning the gun on herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dason Peters, 33, was found in the hallway near the front door, face-down in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police found Rosette, 43, in bed, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. Her gun, a 9-mm Glock, was found by her side, along with her one-year-old child, Dylan Samuel Peters, who was shot in the chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rosette\u2019s oldest son, Dondre Samuel, 19 at the time, escaped through a window as the shooting took place. He told police that his mother and Peters had been fighting all night. She even called the 108th Precinct to let them know she would be late for her shift that morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Colleagues at the Traffic Control Division said she was a loner who didn\u2019t smile much. \u201cShe was very quiet. She didn\u2019t have any friends,\u201d one co-worker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n None of her colleagues said they saw signs of violence. \u201cThere was no indication she had any problems,\u201d said another cop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But there are always clues left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Investigators found two suicide notes in Rosette\u2019s Flatbush apartment, one to her son Dondre and another to an aunt, asking her to take care of the young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rosette\u2019s note explained to Dondre that she killed his baby brother so that the 19-year-old wouldn\u2019t have an extra burden. She also wrote that she left him $42,000 for continued education<\/a>. She didn\u2019t give a reason for shooting Jason Peters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what was<\/em> her motive for killing Peters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s not confirmed, but there\u2019s some speculation that there was another woman, according to an unconfirmed source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police say a third note was found ripped to pieces in the toilet, but they were unable to read its contents. It\u2019s possible this mystery letter may have been a catalyst for the whole horrible string of events, but it looks like we\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As is often the case, a new crime brings up crimes from the past. Stacy Wilson\u2019s mother, Emelia Nanton, who is still trying to put her life back together, experienced another onslaught of questions in the wake of the Rosette Samuel murder-suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But all she wants is to be left alone to heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEverybody meeting me and telling me how God answers prayers and what goes around comes around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis thing happens to Shorn\u2019s sister and you\u2019re <\/a>looking <\/a>for people to say we have to forgive each other and pray for one another, but some people acting as if I was praying for something bad to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, she stressed, the prayers and wishes of others are certainly not hers. Instead, she said, \u201cGod does not render evil for evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n1. Shorn Samuel Had a Long History of Harassing Stacy Wilson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
2. Stacy Wilson Was Murdered Returning Home from Work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
3. A Loss to Her Whole Community<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
4. Not the First Beheading on Saint Vincent<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
5. Murderer Shorn Samuel Made Demands<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
6. Shorn Samuel Guilty of Murdering Stacy Wilson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
7. Murder Seems to Run in the Family<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
8. Stacy Wilson\u2019s Mom Wants Peace<\/h4>\n\n\n\n