ONE day after 24-year-old Lashana Boyce, a sales girl attached to Grill King was allegedly stabbed by the father of her child on Durban Street Lodge, the suspect Cleveland Williams has turned himself in to police.

Williams has however denied stabbing Boyce deliberately. In an interview with Nightly News’ reporter Travis Chase on Wednesday before he turned himself in, Williams said he was waiting for the mother of his daughter to arrive at the child’s school. He explained in the brief interview that he waited for some time until he saw Boyce walking from the direction of their child’s school.

“And after sitting for a while, she come from the direction of my daughter school. So I go over to her and ask her ‘girl what happen why you ain’t pass and collect the snacks and things for my daughter. She start fuh say you ain’t supposed to ask me nothing, you are supposed to stay 100 yard away from me. I said man is meh daughter you talking about and she carry on. And me and she start fighting – I had a knife in my waist, I take out the knife and when me and she fall in the drain… pon she back, me hand went under she back and I give she two slap in she face and me mother and nephew come and hold on pon me,” said Williams, who is said to be a labourer.

The man maintained during the interview that he did not stab the woman deliberately with the intention to kill her. “No, I would never do that to that girl…I love that girl you know,” he stated. According to reports, Boyce had a restraining order against Williams. He told Chase that the restraining order had to do with domestic matters.

“I go and meet she with a man by she and when I talk to she about it, she must be don’t like what I tell she so she go at the station,” he said.
Lawrence said he decided to turn himself in to the police because “it is the right thing to do.” “My mother told me the police was at her house, so I decided to ease everything and go there,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the police said that reports indicate that Boyce had just dropped her child off to school and was walking on the southern side of Durban Street, heading east, when Williams, a labourer of Durban Street, pulled out a knife from his waist and attacked her.

The woman reportedly attempted to jump into a nearby gutter, but Williams held onto her and a scuffle ensued. She was stabbed twice in the back and was rescued by public-spirited persons. At that time, Williams fled the scene. The woman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she remains a patient.