RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

As she clutched her nine-month-old son in her arms, a 20-year-old Vista­bel­la wait­ress nar­row­ly es­caped death af­ter she was stabbed in the ab­domen on New Year’s Day fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment with a man she knew.

Mikay­la Au­gus­tus, 20, of Fa­bi­en Street, Vista­bel­la suf­fered a lac­er­a­tion to her lung and is now rest­ing in se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

A 21-year-old sus­pect in Thomp­son Gar­dens, Tar­o­dale, has since been ar­rest­ed and a switch­blade be­lieved to have been used in the at­tack was seized.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 1:10 am, Au­gus­tus’s moth­er Melis­sa Boodas­ingh was at her home when her daugh­ter re­turned with her 9-month-old ba­by son. The sus­pect con­front­ed Au­gus­tus and pulled out a sil­ver switch­blade knife, which he re­port­ed­ly used to stab Au­gus­tus in the ab­domen.