The mother of Isaiah Edwards, the youth who was fatally stabbed on Wednesday by her now ex-partner, is hoping that the man will be soon brought to justice.
Codisha Edwards, of East La Penitence Squatting Area, Georgetown, told this newspaper that her 19-year-old son died at the Infectious Disease Hospital at Liliendaal due to the injury inflicted by her partner of three years, Shawn Bobb.
The police have issued a wanted bulletin for Edwards, 30, in connection with the stabbing.
According to Codisha, prior to the fatal altercation she had returned home and Bobb also returned home soon after. She noted that she had observed that he had a hospital discharge card and a card used by pregnant women at health centres. She said that she started to question him about the documents and then the two started arguing. During that time it was just her, her partner and one of her daughters at the house. At some point her son returned home and as the time passed more persons returned home and a friend came over to visit.
Eventually, while she was cooking, Bobb, who was still fretting over the argument, asked for his food but she informed him that it was still being cooked. He continued to demand that she give him his food and her son became annoyed after the man started using disrespectful insults.
Codisha said her son got up and said “Mommy, give this man he food if he want it and let he go long because he overdoing it and he is being disrespectful.” However, she maintained that the food was not cooked. Bobb then said that he wanted the food as it was and her son told her to give him the food since he was insisting that he wanted it in the uncooked state. She said that she obliged but Bobb then threw it out of the house.
This resulted in an argument between the two men. She said that Bobb eventually pulled a knife, which he used to stab her son in the region of the right side lung. She further explained that during this time, she was standing behind her son and the man was about two inches away from him. She jumped in-between the two men and she was stabbed to the left side of her lower back. She said that immediately after realising her son was injured, she rushed him out of the house because she didn’t know the severity of the injuries she and he had received.
However, one of her daughters was still at home and the man then began assaulting her. Codisha said that her daughter told her that the man, who was still armed with the knife, started firing ‘jooks’ (stabs) in her direction and she managed to get the pressure pot, which had the unfinished food in it. She first used the pot as a shield before getting the lid open and pouring the contents on him. He fled after the still hot contents had been poured onto his feet.
Codisha added that the man was also telling her daughter “You gon dead tonight too, you gon dead.”
The grieving woman that she and Bobb had arguments like every other couple but it had never escalated like it had on Thursday.
Prioritized
Codisha also recalled their admission to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where on arriving they were told to walk in. They insisted that they couldn’t because they were both injured. Two attendants eventually brought out wheelchairs which they used to carry her and her son into the emergency unit. After being taken to the emergency unit, her son was placed on a bed away from her. She said that she immediately told the nurses and doctors who were attending to him that he had allergies and he was asthmatic. She said that they were given medication but her son was still in pain and he told the nurses and doctors. She also said that her daughter, who eventually arrived at the hospital, also told the nurse that her brother was in pain. But the nurse said that he was already given medication for that. At some point they were tested for COVID-19 but they didn’t get their results immediately after.
Codisha added that all the while her son was groaning from the pain until he eventually started vomiting blood. By this time, his wound had a bandage but it had not been examined to see how deep it was or how severe. She added that a doctor went to them and said that her son had to be taken “up” because he was becoming pale from the loss of blood. She assumed he was taken for was surgery. She complained that her son did not receive the care she received. She said that her son’s injuries were far more severe than hers and he should have been prioritized immediately after arriving.
Codisha said that she was admitted into the female ward but she still hadn’t received her COVID-19 test result and still had no word about her son. The next day, a doctor who was visiting a patient called her because he had met her when they first arrived. She asked if he knew anything about where her son was taken and about his condition. “And that is when it was said to me that my son was tested positive for COVID and they had send him off to Ocean View,” she said tearfully.
She said that she was present at the hospital but nobody told her nor did they contact her family. Codisha went on to say that she asked her daughter, who visited sometime after, to find out what happened to Isaiah. The woman said that her daughter was told that Isaiah had a surgery performed and he was in a stable condition. However, her daughter was later contacted and told that her brother had succumbed at the Infectious Disease Hospital.
Codisha believes that her son’s injury was not treated as seriously as it should have been. That being said, she added that her paramount concern now is the arrest of Bobb. She said, “It was very heart rendering to see I lost my son in that manner”. She said that she is relying heavily on the police to let justice prevail and for Bobb to be caught and put before the courts.
Bobb’s last known address is the East La Penitence Squatting Area. Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of Bobb is asked to contact the police on telephone numbers 227-2603, 226-6978, 226-6221, 219-3252, 227-1149, 225-8196, 268-2328, 268-2298/2222, 226-7065, 911 or the nearest police station.
