Corrections Officer Murders Wife In Front Of Child Then Kills Self.…

In the hus­tle and bus­tle of ear­ly morn­ing Kingston, a cor­rec­tions offi­cer took the life of his estranged wife, 42-year-old Rouleene Clarke-Gowans, also a cor­rec­tion­al offi­cer, as she head­ed to work.
Patrick Gowans, this morn­ing shot and killed his ex-wife in front of their 12-year-old daugh­ter who has been left trau­ma­tized accord­ing to local media.

“For years now, she and the man have prob­lems, prob­lems in the sense that him keep on beat­ing her, draw him gun on her,” said Horace Copeland, half-broth­er to Clarke Gowans, who sought to give com­fort to griev­ing fam­i­ly and friends gath­ered at the house near Woodpecker Avenue, Kingston 11, mid-morn­ing.
Copeland said he had long warned his sis­ter to break off rela­tions with Gowans, who he described as a ser­i­al abuser.
He said that he was so incensed that his sis­ter had secret­ly got mar­ried to​Gowans that he refused to speak with her for a few years.“Them hide and go mar­ried. Me did vex!” said Copeland. “I don’t go to their house, I don’t deal with her. ‘You a go make the man kill you!’” he said, recount­ing the mul­ti­ple warn­ings he gave Clarke Gowans.

In the mean­time, the fam­i­ly is also trau­ma­tized by the stark images being cir­cu­lat­ed of the crime scene before the arrival of police.
They are appeal­ing to the sen­si­bil­i­ties of those who post the grue­some images on social media sites not to con­tin­ue doing so out of respect.
We have opt­ed to hon­or those request by not includ­ing those images in our reporting.