Mentally ill woman kills man

“She cannot mentally handle being in a cell,” said a relative of Marshall. “In this kind of situation, no one knows what might make her trigger and she could hurt herself.

She needs her medication.” On Saturday last, screams were heard at Marshall’s Fifth Street Extension home in Oropune Gardens, Arouca. When relatives rushed to see what happened, they found Marshall bleeding from a knife wound to his neck and his 26-year-old female relative standing nearby with a bloody knife.

Police detained the woman and according to relatives, carried her first to Arima Hospital then to a cell at the Arima Police Station, where she is being held.

On Monday at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, relatives told reporters that the woman has a history of mental illness but never showed violent tendencies until Saturday when Marshall was stabbed and killed.

They added that when relatives entered the room where Marshall was stabbed, the female relative seemed “spaced out” as she held the murder weapon.

“She (the woman) would mostly go nights without sleeping, but she had different symptoms,” said a relative of the slain man. “It is a complicated sickness.

We never took her to St Ann’s, but we took her to private institutions.” Newsday understands that the woman worked at a bakery in Arima. She was working and functioning normally for the entire week prior to the stabbing incident. Relatives said they bear no malice against the woman for the stabbing. Investigations are continuing.