A day af­ter the body of 65-year-old Ezla Theodo­ra Sandy was found at her home in Tacarigua, el­der­ly res­i­dents yes­ter­day ex­pressed con­cerns for their safe­ty and are call­ing on more po­lice pa­trols.

Sandy was be­lieved to have been the first per­son mur­dered for the year.

Her body was on­ly found at about 2 pm on Sun­day by neigh­bours who went to check on her at her house at Sap­phire Dri­ve, off Crown Street.

A door to the home was found opened.

Po­lice were told that Sandy was last seen alive on Old Year’s night.

An au­top­sy has been or­dered to con­firm the cause and time of death.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia dur­ing a vis­it in the area yes­ter­day, an el­der­ly woman, who said she was a good friend, said she was con­cerned.

“We are hear­ing all sorts of things this morn­ing. She lived there...not re­al­ly up­stairs where they found her per se be­cause it was un­fin­ished...but the per­son had to be mark­ing her to know when she would have been there alone,” the neigh­bour said.

“My daugh­ter just call me to tell me make sure and lock my door af­ter she hear the news. This is wor­ry­ing and fright­en­ing. We didn’t even know what hap­pened till the next day. I just know I saw po­lice and them there but I was wash­ing clothes, and didn’t take on any­thing,” she added.

An­oth­er el­der­ly res­i­dent called for high­er vis­i­bil­i­ty of po­lice of­fi­cers and pa­trols in the area.

“This can hap­pen to any­one of us be­cause we can all be tar­gets. With the sa­van­nah right there too it have all kinds of peo­ple there and we need more po­lice in the area,” she said.