(Trinidad Express) The domestic violence protection order granted to Rio Claro mother Julie Parris earlier this year proved worthless yesterday, when she was chopped and stabbed to death by the man whom she tried to escape.
Her son and his girlfriend were also chopped by the close male relative, but survived.
Parris, 43, was killed at the home of her son, Brian Parris, who lived with his girlfriend, Lucy Faria, at Mahabalsingh Trace, Navet Village.
The suspected killer, a 47-year-old gardener, was last night on the run from police.
Parris was killed six months after obtaining a protection order from the court instructed the suspect to leave her house at El Guanapo Estate, Navet Village. The man moved to a house nearby.
Police were told that yesterday morning, Parris went to the home of her son, Brian, 22, and Faria, 20.
Parris was accompanied by her 13-year-old son, Steve.
At around 9 a.m the suspect came to the house and began arguing with the woman before stabbing her multiple times, police said.
Police said that Brian Parris, in attempting to defend his mother, confronted the suspect with a cutlass.
The suspect wrestled the cutlass from the son and chopped him and his girlfriend on the neck, head and shoulders.
He then turned on Parris, and chopped her numerous times.
Parris’s teenage son ran to a neighbour’s house for help.
Parris died at the house.
Brian Parris and Faria were taken for treatment at the Sangre Grande Hospital.
The suspect ran into the bushes and was being hunted by police up to late yesterday.
