STABBED OVER AND OVER

TOSSED OUT: The couch on which Venezuelan mother of three Katherin Diaz was stabbed to death yesterday is seen on the roadside outside the house in Princes Town where the murder took place.
TOSSED OUT: The couch on which Venezuelan mother of three Katherin Diaz was stabbed to death yesterday is seen on the roadside outside the house in Princes Town where the murder took place.

A MOTHER of three who left Venezuela to seek a better life in Trinidad, was stabbed to death yesterday morning by a male relative, who is also Venezuelan, at the apartment home of their neighbour in Princes Town. Up to press time, the killer remained at large.

Police said they had no motive for the murder of Katherine Diaz especially as other persons living in the house described the killer as a “calm and quiet man” who usually kept to himself.

Diaz was stabbed over and over as she lay on a couch.

The killer then calmly walked out of the house at King Street and escaped.

Police said Diaz was originally from Tucupita, the capital city of the Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro.

The suspect is said to be the father of one of Diaz’s three children, all of whom are staying in Venezuela with her relatives.

Speaking to Newsday hours after the incident, a Trinidadian who lives in the apartment where the stabbing took place, said Diaz had been staying with him and his family for the past seven days. The witness said that at about 4 am, he and other relatives were awakened by screams from Diaz. They saw the killer in the living-room hovering over Diaz, who lay helplessly on the couch. The man kept stabbing her.

When she stopped screaming and stopped moving, gasping for breath, the man calmly walked past the horrified eyewitnesses, unlocked the front door and left.

“There was no argument, no bickering, nothing like that. He is a quiet man, so this is shocking to us. We are stunned. Last night we all went out liming and everything was normal. We came back home and went to bed. He is such a calm person,” said the man.

“When my wife put on the light, the man was on top of her. Katherine was speaking in Spanish, so I did not understand. Right now, my wife is resting because she got an anxiety attack,” he said. The man said his wife is from the Dominican Republic and she is deeply traumatised over the incident.

The man said that the suspect never showed any tendency towards violence.

An ambulance later took Diaz to the Princes Town Area Hospital where she later died. Police from Princes Town and Homicide Bureau (Region III) are investigating. When Newsday visited yesterday, the bloodstained couch had been placed on the roadside.

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