Flankers, St James

Jeremiah and Edna Hyman, two senior citizens of this troubled community, have been forced to parent their three grandchildren who were left motherless, following Sunday’s horrifying death of 25-year-old nail technician Stacy Hyman.

Hyman was stabbed repeatedly by her reclusive neighbour, Selvin Russell-Grey, in the heat of a fracas over her right to cross a broken-down zinc fence separating their premises.

Russell-Grey, who had previously served two years of a six-year prison term after beheading a man in Chigwell, Hanover, then directed his venom on the slain girl’s father who was seeking to rescue her.

He ostensibly committed suicide afterwards, locking himself inside his apartment and setting it on fire.

“Him kill me daughter and me only lose me son about three years ago,” wailed Hyman’s distraught mother, Edna, through a flood of tears. She added, “Sometimes for months me don’t even sell not even a cent. How me going manage?”

Explaining that her husband, who was admitted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital in serious condition following the incident, was a construction worker, Edna said, “nothing naw gwan”.

The father of the three infants -eight-month-old Rahiem, three-year-old Neil and five year-old Shaleek Richards – lives abroad.

In the meantime, Edna, who is a craft vendor, is still mystified as according to her, Russell-Grey and her daughter frequently “joked with each other”.

But she recounted that only last week the ex-convict, who moved into the community about four years ago – threatened to “chop-up” another female tenant.