The St Elizabeth police have arrested and charged 38-year-old building contractor Joseph Finnikin with murder in the case of his girlfriend, Anishka Thompson.

He’s also charged with using a firearm to commit a felony.

Thompson was a 20-year-old student of Hill Top District, Parottee, St Elizabeth.

She was found shot to death at a house with Finnikin on July 3.

Finnikin, otherwise called “Bug”, “Tyson” and “Contractor” told detectives then that he had removed his licensed firearm from a safe and put it on a table while getting ready for work.

He said he in the process of loading the weapon when Thompson playfully took up the firearm and in an attempt to retrieve it from her, he heard a loud explosion.

The incident happened around 8:30AM.

Lawmen say they relied on a ballistics report in their investigation.