A 19-year-old Balandra security guard drowned on Thursday after ditching work to lime with friends at the beach. According to police, Felicia McKenzie, originally of Sugar Hill Terrace, Balandra, went to Salybia with a woman and another friend around 9 am. Three hours later her body was seen floating two miles off shore, police said.
They said a Swedish couple fished the teen’s body out of the water and brought it to shore. McKenzie was bleeding from the mouth and nose, prompting officers to suggest foul play. Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, McKenzie’s father, Stephen McKenzie, said he last spoke with his eldest daughter the day before she died. He added his daughter loved to lime at the beach and was a “party girl”.
The father of 12 said she had moved out of the home and was living at Baker Street, Sangre Grande. “I have to deal with it, I don’t really know what else to say. I wasn’t expecting it. It was my child so I feeling it,” McKenzie said. Sgt Christopher Fuentes of the Matura Police Station is continuing investigations. Police said they were looking for McKenzie’s friends to help with their investigations.