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in 2014 jasmine harton traveled from her small hometown in ontario to belize a small caribbean paradise located in
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central america hartn who was pursuing a career as a realtor at the time met andrew ashcroft
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the son of an extremely wealthy businessman there was something intriguing about his
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level of confidence i thought he was very clever very funny very witty in 2016 hartn got engaged to ashcroft and
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also befriended a high-ranking police officer named henry jamaat he loved his food
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loved my cooking often came to the house for dinner harton relied heavily on jamaat as her protector and knew she
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could call him if she felt like she was in danger on may 22nd 2021 harton says she was at
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a party when a man became physically aggressive with her harton says she called jamaat who didn't
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hesitate to come to her aid he drove an hour to come pick me up and he kept saying we need to really work on getting
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your firearms license less than a week later jamaat asked harton to set him up with accommodations at the grand colony
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resort the ashcroft property where she lived late that night harton says they were
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enjoying drinks at the resort when the pair decided to head to the pier it was a full moon
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the stars were gorgeous so we decided let's go down sit on the pier we were sitting on the edge our legs
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kind of dangling just talking harten says that's when jamaat pulled out his nine millimeter glock 17 and started
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teaching her how to eject and reload the magazine clip and bullets he said let's see if you can do you know
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unload the clip reload it this is so help me get the clip out i was unloading it then he took the bullets and put them
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beside him i was under the impression that the gun was completely empty at the time harton says she agreed to give
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jamad a shoulder massage and repositioned herself behind him hartin says they had decided to head back
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inside and says jamaat asked her to hand him the magazine clip out of the gun i reached for the gun to take
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the magazine or the clip out because he was going to reload it he had the bullets there and
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all of a sudden it went off and yeah he it's hard to talk about this still harton says that jamaat never made a
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sound so the shot went off and he fell on top of me and all i could feel was warmth and i later
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then realized he was bleeding on me harton claims that his death was a terrible accident but some find it hard
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to believe including henry jamaat's sister cherry he is so skillful and he is so careful
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you don't believe in any possible way this could have been an accident i cannot believe that jasmine harding
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should be charged for murder and not manslaughter you