"Brian Williamson" was a Jamaican Gay rights activist and co-founder of the Jamaican forum for lesbians and gays, J-Flag. He was known for personally housing and looking after gay people in Jamaica.

He was murdered with a machete, suffering multiple stab wounds to neck and face.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher Rebecca Schleifer had a meeting with Williamson that day, and arrived at his home not long after his body had been discovered:

She found a small crowd singing and dancing. One man called out, "Battyman he get killed." Others were celebrating, laughing and shouting "Let's get them one at a time", "That's what you get for sin". Others sang "Boom bye bye", a line from a well-known dancehall song by Jamaican star Buju Banton about shooting and burning gay men. "It was like a parade", says Schleifer. "They were basically partying."

Williamson's confessed murderer, Dwight Hayden, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after fifteen years.

The French band Tryo dedicated a song named after him on its 2012 album Ladilafé.

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People are starting to wonder if this late-summer decline is for real.

Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones who were too poor to get out, and now theyre dying.

We don't know what were going to go home to, ... If we don't have anything anymore, Im not sure I want to go. But then again, we don't have anything now.

Weve got a lot more than a lot of people.

You have mixed feelings when you hear a hurricane is coming because they keep telling you to leave and then nothing happens, ... Sometimes you hear the sirens, and you just roll over and go back to sleep. You get desensitized to it.

There are a lot of people far worse off than us, ... At least were here, and were alive.

You're going to see a lot of volatility all day. It's the last day of trading for the quarter, so things get hectic.

The market needs a catalyst right now with all this bad news weighing on it. It's up to earnings to turn the tide.

There is a human toll and an economic toll and the Street is currently weighing both of them.

In all you're seeing sort of a mixed reaction out there. The oil data was good because of the distillates, but you're still seeing oil prices higher because of demand. And we're seeing a lot of volatility across the board.

The number looks pretty much in line. Ex-food and energy was better than expected. The focus is on earnings now this economic number is out of the way. The market looks to be doing OK off the get-go here.

Our partnership with Nasdaq... enables us to build on the momentum we've already achieved.

We're still right back where we were this morning.

I used to drive the Twin Span Bridge three or four times a day, ... Now its destroyed.

The big concern that the Street has with the Fed is if they continue to go at this pace, what does this do to corporate profits?