Bronx Woman Celebrating Father-in-Law’s 80th Birthday in St. Lucia Dead in Jet Ski Freak Accident

by Xara Aziz
Courtesy: Natiya Joseph

A French man has been arrested and charged in the killing of a Bronx woman while she was vacationing in St. Lucia.

On Apr. 7, The Royal St. Lucia Police Force said that 21-year-old Evans Ramos, of Cosmellieur, France, killed Jazmine Chandler-Tabb in a jet ski incident that went awry. Ramos has been charged with manslaughter.

The accident was first reported after police officers arrived at the scene where a tube (a floating device attached to a vessel on water) collided with the jet ski Chandler-Tabb was a passenger on.

“The jet ski collided into the tube, resulting in the death of the young lady,” police told ABC News. Chandler-Tabb, who was a passenger on the jet ski, was rushed to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.

“I’m just devastated. She was my friend, my partner…she was just my everything,” Chandler-Tabb’s wife Natiya Joseph told ABC News.

The couple was planning on celebrating their second wedding anniversary just weeks before the tragic accident, Joseph said, adding that she, her wife and their daughter Aniya landed in St. Lucia just one day before the accident. They were on the island to celebrate Joseph’s father’s 80th birthday. One day before her father’s party was scheduled to take place, her family visited Reduit Beach, a narrow stretch of sand and water in the northern part of the island. Chandler-Tabb would never return.

Courtesy: Natiya Joseph

“Jazmine was very loving, very supporting, she was encouraging,” Joseph recalled of her wife’s persona. “She was always smiling. Huge smile.”

The suspect, who was driving the jet ski when the accident occurred, has been remanded in custody. He was also visiting the island and was a passenger on a cruise ship, according to authorities.

“I hope that he gets the justice that he deserves,” Joseph said.

St. Lucian officials are now working with owners and operators of jet skis on the island to ensure accidents like these are prevented from happening in the future.

This story is developing.

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