Woman dies in knife attack at Park Hill

JOSETH GUMBS, the sister of a woman who was killed in Park Hill on Saturday says that her sister was so scared of the alleged killer that she refused to report her abuse to the police.

“I knew him very well… lately they were on and off because she was really trying to get him off because he was very abusive, threatening her, she couldn’t even go to the station to make a report,” Joseth told SEARCHLIGHT from her porch on Sunday.

MURDER VICTIM Mickeisha’ Gumbs’ brother Japheth Gumbs (left) and her sister Joseth Gumbs show SEARCHLIGHT the area where their sister died. One-year-old Vanique, being held by Joseth, said “mommy” as she looked on.

Joseth’s 26-year-old sister Mickeisha Gumbs was stabbed to death in the presence of two of her three children on Saturday around 4:30 p.m. She died on the spot. Her boyfriend Vandyke “Dez” King has been detained by police in relation to the brutal killing.

“I don’t even know what to say, I’m still lost. She (Mickeisha) was scared of making the report,” Joseth stressed while adding that she now has to take care of her nieces, Raynique, 9, Mariah, 8, and Vanique, 1.

Joseth said her sister was in a five-year relationship with the Park Hill man but did not live with her boyfriend, the father of her youngest child.

“She complained (about him) and I know, I does hear. I try to talk to him already and we fall out through that,” Joseth explained.

She said her sister went to Kingstown on Saturday with her 9-year-old daughter and caught a Georgetown van, stopped at Colonaire and began walking to Park Hill as the public transport situation in the area is not very reliable.

“The Bellevue church pastor, I can’t remember his name, gave her a ride along with her daughter and cousin and dropped her right by my gate.

“Then after the thing (the killing), I hear some guy on the flat call the guy at work and tell him a man just drop off his woman and he call one his friends to come for him,” Joseth said.

GRIEF-STRICKEN Joseth Gumbs (right), says her sister Mickeisha Gumbs who was stabbed to death on Saturday, was too afraid to make police reports.

The bereaved sister who cried throughout the entire interview said her sister was discussing plans for Raynique’s 10th birthday next week, but later left to get her one-year old daughter from her boyfriend’s mother’s home.

“On her way back, he meet up with she somewhere in the corner round dey and she daughter say he come with two knife, he use one, and a girl who was there with them say he was kicking her up first and thing like that.

Mickeisha Gumbs

“She had the baby in she hand and she fell over the wall with the baby in she hand and he went down and stab her,” Joseth said.

The angry woman said the baby has bruises on her back.

“I have to take care of the kids now,” Joseth mumbled while adding that this is the first time the family has experienced something of this nature.

She said her sister was a jovial person and would do anything for her children.

“I want justice for my sister,” Joseth added.