Mom left distraught as daughter allegedly killed by lover cop
Published:Friday | June 27, 2025 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter
As Euon Douglas-Graham yesterday clutched a framed picture of her daughter, 20-year-old D’Johnnay ‘Moya’ Graham, who was killed hours earlier at their home during a domestic violence incident, the grieving mother questioned whether she was in a scene from a movie.
D’Johnnay was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, a policeman, who then attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head, in Beecham Hill, Flint River, St Mary, on Wednesday night.
The family home was a scene of grief yesterday as neighbours, church folk, teachers, and friends gathered.
The sight of D’Johnnay’s car parked outside was too emotional for her mom.
“Me caa go ina Moya car, mi caa go in deh ... . What a jealous man! What a jealous man! Him lef’ down a Constant Spring and come kill me pickney pon the veranda,” Douglas-Graham said.
She told The Gleaner that she was sitting in her living room sometime after 9 p.m. when she heard explosions outside.
“When mi hear the gunshot dem, mi never know say a Moya. Mi think a inna the ceiling or outta door him shoot it. A when me see the likkle pickney dem jump through the window, caa mi never see him like that, me never know him woulda kill Moya. Jesus Christ, Lawd!” Douglas-Graham said as she wept inconsolably.
When The Gleaner asked Douglas-Graham if she had seen any cause for concern, she could only remember a recent incident when the policeman, who is assigned to the St Andrew Central Police Division, threw away her daughter’s phone.
“I went to church and me hear say him fling weh Moya phone ... . Not Sunday gone, the Sunday before. Moya complain say she hide nuff things [from her family] because him controlling and him abusive ... . She never want tell we. A suh she tell me, and one a her cousin say anytime she forgive him, we nah go forgive him,” Douglas-Graham told The Gleaner.
“Mi can’t believe. A must a movie this. Mi can’t believe.”
Moya was the older of two daughters for Douglas-Graham.
“Moya! You coulda start from Highgate come up and dem woulda tell yuh how loving and kind and respectful Moya was. Jesus Christ!” Douglas-Graham said.
D’Johnnay was employed as an assistant teacher at Beecham Hill Primary and Infant School in the parish.
The Gleaner was told that her contract had expired in April, however, she was granted an extension by the principal because of how well she worked.
Beecham Hill Primary school held its graduation ceremony yesterday.
Grief councillors from the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information visited the home and school yesterday.
Douglas-Graham said the policeman, who up to press time was still under guard at hospital, lived at the home with her daughter.
“Yes, when him come from work, him woulda come right here. Mi tek him fi mi pickney,” Douglas-Graham said, adding that she and her daughter’s boyfriend had a good relationship.
On Wednesday, she said the policeman bent her daughter’s hand behind her back and she intervened and told him to let her go.
“Him let her go ... and me tell him Sunday when mi come mi say mi gone a church gone praise God and pray fi unuh ‘cause unuh down here. Him fling weh Moya iPhone 11 and mash it up,” Douglas-Graham told The Gleaner.
The Gleaner understands that D’Johnnay was adamant that her phone should be returned.
“Moya tell him last night say him affi buy it back. She tell him say him badmind. She say ‘You know mi a look ‘bout fi go a school and yuh mash up mi phone’, but him did deh inna rage from him deh a town,” Douglas-Graham said.
A phone call that D’Johnnay received was reportedly his bone of contention.
“Him say somebody call the phone and say if Moya reach town safe. Him not even wah know if a family memba or wah,” Douglas-Graham said.
She recounted that some members of the family were hesitant for D’Johnnay to enter into the relationship.
“Nobody nah waa Moya go inna relationship so. A him a di fuss somebody make Moya go a dance. Moya nuh use to them something deh. Mi grow her inna church. A must movie this ya. This can’t real. Da one ya nuh real. It nuh real. A must a movie this,” Douglas-Graham said.
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