A Moru­ga fam­i­ly is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the trag­ic death of 58-year-old Ral­phie Kadill, who fell ap­prox­i­mate­ly 12 feet off a precipice near his home along Harp­er Trace, St Mary’s Vil­lage, on Tues­day night.

Kadill’s niece, Ruth Kadill, said the fam­i­ly be­lieves he may have fall­en asleep while re­lax­ing on a re­tain­ing wall and rolled over the edge. She re­called that ear­li­er in the evening, she and Kadill’s 17-year-old daugh­ter were sit­ting with him on the wall.

Ruth said Kadill may have been in­tox­i­cat­ed at the time. She lat­er left them and went in­side, while his daugh­ter re­mained with him be­fore al­so go­ing in­doors.