A cock­tail of ob­ses­sion, ta­ban­ca and a vi­o­lent past spilt over on Mon­day night when a 28-year-old Ari­ma man trav­elled deep in­to a forest­ed Pa­lo Seco com­mu­ni­ty to hack his for­mer lover, Tehi­la St Clair, to death.

De­spite St Clair's screams for help, neigh­bours on­ly be­came aware of the tragedy tak­ing place when her five-year-old son, Tyler, ran out of their Allen Street home to find help.
“Help! Help! (Name called) killing my mom­my,” he shout­ed to a neigh­bour stand­ing on the junc­tion.
Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors were still at St Clair's home yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, col­lect­ing ev­i­dence to build a case against the sus­pect, who they found hid­ing out in the bush­es near­by. He was tak­en for treat­ment for mi­nor wounds he suf­fered as St Clair bat­tled with him when he at­tempt­ed to chop Tyler.
Her el­der sis­ter, Brit­tney, who lives a few hous­es away, said that it had been a month since St Clair broke up with the man be­cause he was too pos­ses­sive: Al­ways watch­ing her move­ments and nev­er want­i­ng her to come off the phone. When St Clair fi­nal­ly end­ed the re­la­tion­ship, he threat­ened to kill her and set her home ablaze. Brit­tney said that the sus­pect even called her phone, ask­ing whether her St Clair had found a new lover.
Brit­tney said that it was around 11 pm on Mon­day that the sus­pect broke in­to her St Clair's house and en­tered her bed­room where she slept. Afraid, St Clair called her fa­ther Bas­deo for help, say­ing that the sus­pect was in­side her house. How­ev­er, he was far away in Point Fortin.
“My fa­ther called me at 11.33, telling me to walk in the gallery, (Name called) try­ing to kill my sis­ter. I didn’t go be­cause I was think­ing that he could come and do some­thing to my three chil­dren,” Brit­tney said
It was then Tyler ran out for help and three neigh­bours ran to the house. They met St Clair on the kitchen floor, bleed­ing from sev­er­al head wounds. The sus­pect had al­ready left. In­sp Man­groo, In­sp Khan, PC Plaza and of­fi­cers of the San­ta Flo­ra Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed along with an am­bu­lance and St Clair was tak­en to the Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty. How­ev­er, she died while re­ceiv­ing emer­gency treat­ment.
The fam­i­ly has been shak­en by the bru­tal act, say­ing that they did not think that he would have killed her. How­ev­er, they were aware that he was charged with an al­leged sex­u­al as­sault on an­oth­er for­mer lover sev­er­al years ago.
“He looked cool and qui­et but he was kind of un­der­neath. He nev­er used to want her to come off the phone. He was al­ways on the phone with her day and the night. If the bat­tery died, he would curse and get on. He would call on my phone, he would call on my fa­ther’s phone. He was ob­ses­sive,” Brit­tney said.
She said it was on­ly a few months ago that St Clair re­signed as a preschool teacher and was look­ing for­ward to find­ing an­oth­er job.