Toni-Ann Thomas - file
As part of the hunt for child killers, today THE STAR continues its series geared towards informing the public about the unsolved murders.
A reward totalling $100,000 is being offered for the arrest and charge of person or persons responsible for the death of Toni-Ann Thomas. Call Crime Stop toll free at 311. Full confidentiality will be maintained.
Sophia Thompson is anxious for her daughter's killer to be caught. The mother of Toni-Ann Thomas wants closure to her daughter's death more than a year after the two-year-old girl was shot while at home.
Thomas was killed in June last year in her home on York Avenue. For Thompson, the failure to catch her daughter's killers has left her thinking that justice is a far way off.
"Dem case deh nuh fi put dung. Dem case deh fi work pon till somebody get catch. Yuh tink a likkle bit a innocent people get kill an' dem nuh know nutten," said Thompson
Reports are that on June 20 last year, gunmen allegedly from Flinch Crescent, invaded York Avenue in St. Andrew, where Thomas lived with her mother and father. During the gunfire, one of the bullets pierced the wooden frame of the house and killed the youngster.
The infant was struck by a bullet which punched a large hole in her upper back and exited through her left side. Reports are that the child had just finished having her dinner and had gone to her father's room to spend time with him. Her father was also injured in the incident.
Now, a year later, Thompson just wants the matter to end.
"We nuh hear nutten from di police dem fi sometime now, and we jus' waan know how di case a go cause a nuff innocent people dead because a di war roun' here," she said.
Thompson said she has been affected by her daughter's death in more ways than one and hopes the matter will come to a close very soon.
If you have info on the murder
Call: Crime Stop at 311