The family and friends of Nadina Kalamadeen, the mother of five who was stabbed to death last Wednesday evening by an alleged stalker, believes that the crime was premeditated based on the man’s actions prior to the attack.
“I feel he (the suspect) did done had it plan out,” Kwame Crosse, a relative of Kalamadeen told Stabroek News on Friday.
Kalamadeen, 35, of North Sophia, was stabbed multiple times about her body during the attack, which occurred around 8 pm on Wednesday.
The suspect, who has been identified as “Raymond,” who has no fixed address, attempted to escape but was captured by residents and handed over to the police.
He was reportedly beaten by the residents and is currently a patient under guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He is expected to be charged this week.
Investigations, the police have said, revealed that Kalamadeen was walking along First Street, North Sophia when the suspect approached her.
Information reaching this newspaper revealed that Kalamadeen had been avoiding the suspect for some time now as he reportedly wanted a relationship with her and the interest was not mutual.
Minutes later, the police said an eyewitness recalled seeing the suspect inflicting injuries about Kalamadeen’s body with a knife.
Crosse explained that hours before her death, the suspect visited Kalamadeen’s home and requested to take her out.
Kalamadeen related this to Crosse, who told her that she should only go in the company of her daughter and friend. But he said the suspect refused to take the trio, while maintaining that he only had money to purchase food for Kalamadeen.
“Suh, I seh, ‘Wah sense it mek? Yuh ain’t gah enough money fah all ah y’all go to KFC but is nah taxi y’all going with?’ He seh ‘no.’ Suh, I seh, ‘Wah sense it mek? Everybody could go in the taxi and come back in the same taxi. He keep talking ah set a stupidness and suh and I tell he go he way and he leave and went he way,” Crosse recalled.
Later the same evening, he said he was sitting in his yard talking to his father when he saw persons rushing to the house with the news that Kalamadeen was stabbed.
“He (the suspect) did want carry she (Kalamadeen) out by he self and then kill she,” Crosse said.
Meanwhile, Thandica Farley, a friend of the dead woman, described the suspect as persistent despite Kalamadeen’s disinterest in him.
“….He (the suspect) would come. He would sit down. Nadina would thing, thing, she ain’t got time with he, he would still force he way,” Farley said.
She explained that on Wednesday afternoon, Kalamadeen was sleeping when the suspect came to see her.
“…He (suspect) come and he wake she (Kalamadeen) up and he and she (Kalamadeen) stand up hay. He stand up down there (in Kalamadeen’s yard) and she stand up on the step and she showing he action. Well that action that she show he, from she mouth I see she tell he ‘guh long yuh way,’” Farley recalled.
She said Kalamadeen asked the suspect to leave on several occasions but he didn’t. “I did sit down washing and she (Kalamadeen) come and sit down next to me and she tell me that she want this man (the suspect) guh long he way. I seh man, ‘Budday, why yuh don’t go long yuh way and left this girl…? The girl ain’t want nothing fah do with yuh’,” Farley said.
However, despite this, she said the suspect refused to leave.
Farley said Kalamadeen told her that she was going to her mother’s house to check on her children and the suspect followed her. “The place geh dark. All I hear, a girl name Lexie running and panting fuh breath and seh ‘Nadina, Nadina just get juk up,” Farley added.
