“Run, run,” were the fran­tic words of Ik­isha “Free­da” Wild­man to her nine-year-old son be­fore she was stabbed to death in her home on Mon­day night.

In­stead, the boy re­mained in the Mara­bel­la house as his moth­er was stabbed in her chest and ab­domen. While he was not harmed phys­i­cal­ly, rel­a­tives said he has been left se­vere­ly trau­ma­tised.

Rel­a­tives be­lieve the 43-year-old woman’s mur­der is linked to her broth­er, At­i­ba’s killing in May 2022, and three ar­son at­tacks which de­stroyed two of their rel­a­tives’ homes and a ve­hi­cle.

Wild­man had just had a bath and was ly­ing on her bed, while her son was on a chair, when she was at­tacked. Po­lice said her sis­ter, who lives op­po­site her home at the Train Line in Bayshore, heard her scream­ing.

Po­lice said when the sis­ter en­tered Wild­man’s prop­er­ty, she saw her sis­ter’s boyfriend, who told her that Wild­man had been stabbed. Rel­a­tives saw her ly­ing on the ground near the front stairs to her home, bleed­ing from wounds about her body. With the as­sis­tance of a neigh­bour, they took her to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where she was pro­nounced dead.

Speak­ing with re­porters yes­ter­day, her younger sis­ter, who did not want her name pub­lished, said Wild­man’s mur­der was not do­mes­tic. She claimed she was at­tacked by four men. She said they en­tered her sis­ter’s seafront prop­er­ty by climb­ing over the sea wall.

Wild­man, she said, told her son to run, but he stayed with her be­cause they were very close. “He is in a state where he can­not talk. His moth­er’s blood from last night is still on his clothes. He is in and out. He don’t even know his self.”

She said that since her broth­er’s mur­der three years ago, rel­a­tives have been re­ceiv­ing a lot of threats. She claimed that their pleas to the po­lice for as­sis­tance have been ig­nored.

“They nev­er take us se­ri­ous­ly. They burn down my lit­tle broth­er’s house. They burn down my niece’s house. They burn down my sis­ter’s car. The po­lice nev­er help with any as­sis­tance. And it reach to this, an­oth­er one of my fam­i­ly mem­bers died.” The sis­ter said just a week ago, Wild­man was threat­ened by a group of young men. How­ev­er, she claimed they had no idea why they were be­ing tar­get­ed.

The griev­ing sis­ter said af­ter her broth­er’s mur­der, the sur­viv­ing rel­a­tives, in­clud­ing Wild­man, ap­plied to the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion for a house and had plead­ed with Gov­ern­ment to help them re­lo­cate from the area, es­pe­cial­ly since where they live has no elec­tric­i­ty and is lone­ly. How­ev­er, she said the coun­cil­lor re­cent­ly as­sist­ed them with so­lar lights.

De­scrib­ing Wild­man as the life of the par­ty, the sis­ter called for jus­tice. She not­ed that on­ly one of the men al­leged­ly in­volved in her broth­er’s mur­der had been ar­rest­ed and charged.

When con­tact­ed, South­ern Di­vi­sion Snr Supt Garvin Si­mon said of­fi­cers from the Mara­bel­la Po­lice Sta­tion had no re­ports from the fam­i­ly about threats to their lives. He said in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the fires ruled out ar­son.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion 3, are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.