KINGSTON, Jamaica  —  Commanding Officer for the Trelawny Division, Superintendent Velonique Campbell, is imploring residents of Troy in the parish to desist from blocking the roads following Thursday’s protest over a man who they say was arrested in relation to a fatal mobbing three days ago following the gruesome murder of 10-year-old Shani Coke.

“Yesterday, we had persons blocking the road and causing further instability. Please, I am imploring, desist from blocking the road and bringing further instability to your community,” she said in a statement reaching the Observer Online.

The residents also protested over Coke’s death. The child’s partially nude body was found with her throat slashed in bushes on Tuesday.