Stabbing victim recounts assault
Earlier in this newscast we heard the testimony of a hospitalised driver who gave his version of a fatal traffic accident. Now we return to the K.H.M.H. to hear from another patient, a stabbing victim who nearly lost her life on Wednesday. As in the first case, her version of events does not match that given to police by her accused assailant. Once again, Jacqueline Woods reports.
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
Eighteen-year-old Jeaneal Castillo remains hospitalised after her ex-boyfriend twenty-nine year old Marvin “Cooklan” Card nearly killed her. Castillo received a total of three stab wounds to her chest and hand after Card attacked her with an ice pick as she sat on a sofa inside his house.
Jeaneal Castillo, Stabbing Victim
“I only feel when he knocked me in yah. I noh feel when the ice pick gone through me, just when ih knock. I mi think dah ih lone hand. When I haul ih hand, I see the ice-pick inna ih hand and I tell ah, Cooklan, please noh do it, noh do it again, and dah so he juk up me several times again.”
Castillo believes she was stabbed because Card refused to accept that their relationship was over. He told her that if he could not have her then no one else will.
Jacqueline Woods
“At the time of this incident you two were not together, so what were doing at his home?”
Jeaneal Castillo
“I have a slipper there and I have a sofa set. I want it, but he noh want give me. And I want the sofa set and the slippers from ah. And he have a picture with me and he, but I only want the picture to cut it to take off my face cause I noh want he have nothing for me.”
Following the attack, Castillo says she begged Card to help her but he refused.
Jeaneal Castillo
“Whenever I get up to creep to the door he shove me back. When I get up to creep he shove me back. So finally I reach at the door and I tell ah, see the police weh the patrol the pass walking, mek I holler fi them. And he shove me back and tell me no. I reach front of the window and I bend down the hold me knee. From deh I sit down and when I sit down he come in front of me and seh, stab me. I tell ah I can’t do that. He seh, stab mi. I tell ah I can’t. Then he seh, if you noh stab me, I noh gwine goh get no people fi ker you dah hospital, I wah left you yah fi dead. I noh want dead and I noh have no strength, so he just give me the ice pick and I just juk ah pan ih hand. I noh have no kind ah strength and the second time, he sink it inna ih hand himself.”
Jacqueline Woods
“You don’t know why he wanted you to stab him?”
Jeaneal Castillo
“Well, I noh even know, because ih tell me, weh I wah tell the policeman when I reach dah hospital. I tell ah I noh know. He seh, you have to think. So from deh he tell me fi tell them we mi the play. So I tell ah, all right then I wah tell them we di play, because I had to agree to weh he di seh fi mek I try to out ah the house to get help.”
Castillo says she ended the relationship last November after Card threatened and attacked her several times. She says that following one incident, Card was charged with assault, and that up to the time of this latest violence he was still paying a court-imposed fine of two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Jacqueline Woods
“What’s your prognosis right now, what are the doctors saying?”
Jeaneal Castillo
“Well the doctor seh I stand better than weh I come in. I have a tube in my back weh the drain out all the internal bleeding weh I have. Doctor tell me about Saturday or Monday they wah take out the tube and I have to walk around.”
Card remains in police custody and authorities say he will be charged with attempted murder. Jacqueline Woods for News 5.
