Murder victim's son, 7: ‘When again would I see Mummy?’

The seven-year-old boy who witnessed the killing of his mother, 35-year-old Adeina Adana Alleyne, on Tuesday evening, desperately tried to save her life.

The petite child tried to pull away his father, Dwight “Quan” Waldron, 34, who was chopping and stabbing Alleyne. The child was no match for his father, a security officer. Relatives told Newsday the boy then ran outside and alerted residents.

The family’s spokesman Leon Phillip said, “He keeps repeating what he saw. He says Daddy was chopping Mummy. He said he was very frightened.

“Today, he was in good spirits. He was playing with other children.”

Phillip said despite witnessing her death, the seven-year-old boy does not understand he will never see Alleyne again.

“Yesterday (Wednesday), he was talking to his aunty and asked when he would see his mother. The aunt told him it would be at the funeral.

“Then he asked, ‘After the funeral, when again would I see Mummy?’”

Asked about counselling for Alleyne’s son, Phillip said several people had called and offered counselling. He said a woman, believed to be a counsellor, also visited the family and spoke to the child.

Residents found Alleyne’s body with multiple stab and chop wounds at about 7 pm, after the son alerted neighbours to the incident at his father’s home at Building 5, Lady Hailes Avenue, Embacadere in San Fernando. The couple’s two-year-old son was also in the house. He was not hurt.

The residents also found Waldron’s body. Waldron died by suicide.

Alleyne’s ten-year-old daughter from a previous relationship was not in the apartment.

Alleyne, a supervisor at Puff N’ Stuff bakery in San Fernando, and Quan had broken up several times and reunited over the past few years. About four months ago, the couple separated and Alleyne and her children went to live in her grandmother’s home, a stone’s throw away.

Since the murder-suicide, Phillip said, there is a “stillness” in the community.

Autopsies on the bodies are expected to be done on Friday at the Forensic Sciences Centre in St James.