Boyfriend of Old Harbour woman killed in the US found dead
According to multiple sources close to the family of Schloss, a decomposing body of a black male, was found yesterday deep into bushes behind his mother’s house in Lithonia, Georgia, Atlanta.
The DeKalb County Police Department is yet to issue a formal statement on the development, while Old Harbour News was unsuccessful despite making several attempts to speak to someone in authority.
Our sources have informed our news desk that the body of Schloss, 24, was found with a single bullet wound to the head in an apparent case of suicide.
Neighbours and relatives living at his mom’s house had begun smelling a foul order in the last couple of days. The scent became stronger by the day, causing residents to a search the area yesterday during which a body was found.
The police were called to the scene where Schloss’ mother positively identified the body to be that her son, who was born and raised in Bartons district, northern Old Harbour, Jamaica.
Investigators will now initiate a coroner’s report to determine when Schloss had died, while a team of detectives have been assigned to the case to commence their own investigation to also determine the true cause of death.
Schloss was listed as a suspect for the April 13 murder of his 23-year-old girlfriend Smith who was found in the bathroom lying in a pool of blood after being shot in the head at the couple’s Fields Drive home in Lithonia.
Smith, who is from West Street, Old Harbour, was pronounced dead hours later at a hospital nearby.
In the aftermath of Smith’s death, Schloss reportedly called the mother of the deceased in Jamaica as well as his own mother who lives in the same neighbourhood telling them he had regrettably killed his high school sweetheart. Schloss, according to friends and family members close to the couple, became enraged after Smith told him their relationship is over.
On Sunday, nine days after Smith had died; her family staged a candlelight vigil in the Old Harbour community of The Aviary where hundreds of people gathered to mourn her untimely death triggered by a fit of jealously.
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