Gulf Daily News, Bahrain  -   A grieving mother last night blamed US navy officials in Bahrain for the murders of her daughter and a female colleague. Genesia Mattril Gresham, 19, and colleague Anamarie Sannicolas Camacho, 20, were shot dead at the Naval Support Activity Base, Juffair, at around 5am on Monday. Their alleged killer, fellow serviceman Clarence Jackson, 20, is clinging to life after apparently shooting himself in the head immediately after the murders.

She blamed officials for leaving her daughter exposed to danger from a man she said turned nasty when she tried to cool their "casual" relationship. "They knew his state of mind and after he had a restraining order he was on suicide watch, yet was allowed out and allowed to have a gun," said the mother. "She (Genesia) was over there trying to protect our country and they should have done everything they could to protect her.

"Two young women, who were serving their country were murdered in their barracks.

"I haven't got any real details from them (the navy base). The only thing they will tell me is that my daughter is dead. I don't know anything.

"They know things they aren't telling me. We deserve answers."

The mother-of-two is also angry that Jackson was allowed to carry a gun after his alleged attack on her daughter and that officials are not telling her what happened in the run-up to the killings.

"They said they didn't have any information. Everything I know, I know because of what my daughter told me before," she said.

She said her daughter told her Jackson attacked her less than four months ago. "She told me that he grabbed her and tried to choke her and she called the police at the base and they put a restraining order on him," she said. "He said he was going to kill himself, so he was on suicide watch.