FULL STORY: Loved ones touched by Angel

By Anesta Henry | Wed, September 19, 2012 - 11:59 AM

Depression and a broken heart led 24-year-old Angel Taitt, a bride of only two months, to leap to her death from the top of a City building last Friday.

A note found on the deceased’s computer has reinforced this conclusion among grieving and distressed relatives.

One of her two sisters, Katrina Nicholls, told the MIDWEEK NATION yesterday that Angel gave her the password to her computer in a conversation at their mother’s home at Denton Road, Grazettes, St Michael, shortly before the fatal leap from the City Centre car park.

“Angel said that her heart was broken and she just couldn’t put it back together any more,” Nicholls said, citing the computer note.

Nicholls said the family felt very upset about the many rumours that were circulating and decided to speak out.
“Angel was going through a stage that I guess she thought she couldn’t get through.
We had signs that she was going through stuff, never thinking that it would escalate to her doing this,” Yvette Gittens, 36, the other sister said.
“She was telling us what she was going through in pieces. Now it has happened, we’re piecing together the broken pieces.”
According to Gittens, the family knew that Angel’s marriage was crumbling.
“It was evident that there were problems in the marriage. It ain’t nothing to pretend,” said Gittens, who stated that the last time she heard her sister was on Thursday
and she gave her some sisterly advice.
Angel slept at her mother’s house last Thursday night. Early Friday morning, her mother Janice Nicholls called on Katrina to come to her home “because things ain’t look too good with Angel”.
Nicholls said when she got there, Angel was ready to leave, and indicated that she was going to the home she shared with her husband at Shorey Gap, Codrington Hill, St Michael.
She refused her sister’s offer to accompany her and indicated she was “coming back now”.
Nicholls said that later her mother got a call on her cellphone and started to cry.
“I take the phone and she [Angel] said, ‘Sis I on a roof and I gine jump’. And I said, ‘Angel, how you mean you on a roof?’
“Then she say, ‘I love you, sis. Tell everybody else I love them . . . . Then she say, the Krystle that she gave me this morning is the password to her computer and it got
a note to the family . . . she cut out the phone,” said Nicholls.
Seconds later, another call came through. It was Angel’s adopted son’s father who stated that Angel just called him telling him “some stupidness” and that he on his way to Grazettes.
The mother then received a call, notifying her of the tragic fall.
They rushed to the scene.
“She was living. She was down on the ground rolling. She was hollering for aye, aye,” said Nicholls.
Angel died about an hour and a half later at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after being transported there by an ambulance.
The family said they were also very upset that it took about an hour for an ambulance to arrive.

Please read the full story in today’s MIDWEEK NATION, or in the eNATION edition.

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Posted by Tony Waterman 8 months ago: First off, let me express my condolences to Angel's ENTIRE family, this was certainly unexpected and very tramatic for them.
but i cant help but think that something EXTREMELY Devastating happened to her after only Two Months of MARRIAGE

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Posted by Stephen Jones 8 months ago: Why did it take so long for the emergency services to arrive at the scene?

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Posted by Tony Waterman 8 months ago: @ Stephen Jones!!! I might be wrong with this guess, but i will still guess that you are an expatriate, If in fact you are an expatriate i will forgive you for asking this question, if you are not an expatriate, my question to you will be, What Rock are you living under????. {Urban areas, such as Toronto, will set standards according to percentiles, in this case the standard is 8 minutes and 59 seconds or less, 90 percent of the time on AMPDS triaged Delta and Echo calls} {In Ottawa!!!Anthony Di Monte, chief of the Ottawa Paramedic Service, said ambulances in the city are responding to life-threatening calls in an average of 12 minutes and 47 seconds.
"It's not good enough for me, personally, and it's not good enough for our patients," he said. "We have to get better."
While response times have improved by about 30 seconds in the last year, Di Monte said the goal is to respond to urban emergency calls in nine minutes and rural ones in under 16 minutes. The goal is to meet those targets 90 per cent of the time.
So far this year, paramedics have met those targets 65 per cent of the time.}
It took an Ambulance in Barbados 1 Hour Just to Arrive at the Scene
My Advice to you all Bajans!!!!Don't get sick bad enough to have to call an Ambulance, a Taxi would probably be a better idea

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Posted by yogi Ni 8 months ago: This is such a heart breaking incident. I want to send my love out to her family.I know this is a very difficult time for the family, may God grant you all the strength courage and faith to get through this tragedy. If only Angel could have trusted someone enough to open up to them and tell them what she was really going through, they might have been able to get her the help she needed. Only God know what could have gone so wrong in two months. We as human beings need to be able to trust others, especially when we are dealing with difficult situations in our life's . May Angel soul rest in peace with her creator. I sincerely hope her death will not be in vain, but a wake up call to all of us.