A Carenage woman was stabbed to death in her bedroom and her husband critically injured early yesterday morning in a case police were still trying to decipher up to last night.
Police reports stated that the couple’s 14-year-old daughter, Keisha Edwards, heard screams in her parents’ bedroom around 2.10 am and later found her mother, Andrea “Hannah” Edwards, 37, dead on the ground and her father, Raul Joseph, 42, with stab wounds.
Police said one of Joseph’s sons from a previous relationship later took his father to Westshore Medical where he remains warded in a serious condition.
But police said another theory being offered was that a man in dark clothing entered the house and attacked the two. A man in dark clothing was seen fleeing the house, police said they were also told.
What has baffled police, however, is that the house, located at Moya Trace, off Haig Street, Carenage, was described as heavily “fortified,” making it almost impossible to break into the home.
Police added they received information that Joseph and Edwards had a rocky relationship.
In 2010, Joseph’s father, Peter Salvary, 65, had his throat slit at Big Yard, Carenage. Salvary, a mason, was killed on January 7. He was attacked around 2.30 am, police reports stated.
Joseph, the owner of a party boat named “Top Cat”, had a collapsed right lung and stab wounds to the chest and back, while Edwards, an assistant cook, had stab wounds to the abdomen and chest.
On Edwards’ Facebook page, her most recent post was a video of a friend celebrating his birthday. The post was uploaded at 6.35 pm. On Joseph’s Facebook page, many friends posted their condolences for his wife and get well wishes to him.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian near the scene of the incident, Edwards’ younger sister, Sophia, said she was an ambitious woman who dragged that trait out of her.
“She was a very loving and giving person and was hardworking. She recently got a job at a food place on Mucurapo Road as a cook and was working Sunday to Sunday. She had a real sweet hand, she could cook anything.
“She was always encouraging me to do the right thing. I will miss her ambition. She had the ambition to make you feel like you could do anything. I could tell you that because I was weak in that area and she always encouraged me. To know that she come from so far, only to go through this. It is like a nightmare,” Sophia said of her sister.
Edwards added that she and her sister, despite their ups and downs, spoke everyday except the day before she died as she had no credit on her cellphone to call her. She said she had been hearing conflicting reports surrounding her sister’s death, with some claiming an intruder did it while other reports suggested a dispute led to the incident.
Edwards said: “You see this on TV and you wish that it would never happen to you. Right now I would just like to find out the cause of this. Why did this happen?”
With this killing and three others yesterday, the murder toll rose to 289 for the year.