CaribWorldNews, PORT RICHMOND, Staten Island, Tues. July 27, 2010: Medical evidence now seems to suggest that the Trinidad-born mom whose charred body was pulled from a Staten Island home along with her three other children, may have been responsible for the fiery murder-suicide last Thursday.

The blame was initially pointed to 14-year-old C.J., who police initially believed had slashed the throats of his two sisters before slitting his own throat with his mother`s straight razor and setting fire to the apartment. A razor had been found under C.J.`s body and that he had a history of playing with fire, making police theorize he might have killed his family, set the blaze and cut his own throat.

But yesterday medical evidence suggested that Leisha Jones  may have been the killer since soot was found in her lungs and the lungs of her 2-year-old son, Jermaine, showing they died of smoke inhalation. None was found in the lungs of C.J. and his two sisters, Melanie, 7, and Brittany, 9. A 2-year-old son, Jermaine, who was pulled out alive, died later at the hospital of smoke inhalation.

C.J.`s father, Earlston Raymond, who lives in Jamaica, has said early on that he believed the mother is the killer. But as of last night, the NYPD did not officially declare Jones the killer but a fragmented note with the words `am sorry` that was found in another room was written by Jones, forensics have so far determined.  Her stomach also was found with pills, suggesting she tried to overdose.

Jones was working as a security guard while also going to beauty school and living in government subsidized housing in a depressed community in Staten Island and trying to raise four children. Associated Press reports also show she had a debt of close to $9,000,