PRESS RELEASE - On Sunday, May 3, 2015 about 3:45 p.m. officers attached to the Soufriere Police station received information of a sudden death on the Gros Piton trail.
Upon arrival, officers found the lifeless body of 31 year old, Samyca Harris Edwin, a resident of North Carolina in the United States of America.
Edwin, a doctor by profession was hiking the trail along with her husband, also a doctor when she suddenly collapsed. Her husband administered CPR but Edwin never regained consciousness.
Her body was transported to the Soufriere hospital where she was pronounced dead by a medical doctor.
A post mortem examination to determine the cause of death is scheduled for Wednesday May 6, 2015.