Killing of Charity grandmother: Teacher who confessed to murder sent for psychiatric evaluation

Teacher Stephanie Gamell, 22, who allegedly killed her grandmother, Agatha Gamell, at her Charity, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) home on Sunday was sent to the psychiatric ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

She is under Police guard at the medical institution undergoing evaluation.
The woman, whom family members say is battling postpartum depression, had become frantic and brutally butchered her elderly grandmother.
According to reports, the elderly Gamell lived alone in a flat concrete house and would be visited occasionally by her granddaughter.
On Saturday night around 20:00h, the suspect went to the elderly woman’s home with her one-month-old daughter to spend the night.
However, around 04:00h on Sunday morning, one of Gamell’s neighbours told investigators that she heard loud screams, tramping, and the crying of a baby coming from the elderly woman’s house. These sounds lasted for about 15 minutes.
Shortly after, the suspect went to the neighbour’s house and knocked at the door.
According to the neighbour, when the door was opened, she saw the 22-year-old woman with her naked baby in her hands. The neighbour said the suspect told her that the baby had just died and attempted to hand the baby over to her. The neighbour refused to take the baby.
The suspect then walked out of the yard and onto the street with her baby. The Police were called in and the crime scene was visited by the Regional Commander, Superintendent Khemraj Shivbaran, along with other ranks.
Upon inspection of the house, the ranks discovered Gamell’s body clad in a white night dress with suspected blood stains and black tights, lying face up on a floormat in the kitchen. Her head was reportedly shaved, and salt was found around her body.
Shortly after, the teacher was taken into custody, and when questioned by the Police, she claimed that she did not know how she received her injuries.
Her baby was then taken from her and handed over to family members.
Meanwhile, Police said that a Post-Mortem Examination on Gamell’s body is slated to be conducted today.