The mother of 26-year-old Desiree Gibbon, said that she left her Hollis, Queens, home in October and was staying at the family’s resort in Montego Bay. She wanted to make a documentary, CBS noted.
“My belief is it was a cold, calculated, planned out murder,” mom Andrea Cali-Gibbon was quoted by CBS as saying. “It wasn’t a random act of violence. It is somebody she knew, somebody she trusted, and somebody who betrayed her.”
“We were very close, so you can imagine, when I got the news, ‘devastated’ doesn’t begin to describe it,” she added to the Daily News. She called her daughter a world traveler who taught English to children in Brazil at one point.
“She wanted to travel to countries and try things and experience cultures,” the mother said, adding that her father is Jamaican.
“I asking you all to please help me and my [sister] at this very [difficult] and heartbreaking time. My niece was murdered in Jamaica very brutally and we need to get her home as soon as possible!!!! Please help!!!! Thank-you all!!!! (sic),” the GoFundMe page said.
“I am astounded at your generosity,” Cali-Gibbon said, according to the Daily News. “There are just no words for this tragic event. We are destroyed and broken beyond repair.”
According to the Daily News, the Jamaica coroner’s office will now figure out the cause of the model’s death.
The publication reported that she competed in beauty pageants, modeled, and even acted.
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