Freeman St hammering victim regains ability to speak

Sharon Howell

Sharon Howell, who was stabbed and hammered in a brutal attack at her Freeman Street, East La Penitence home, has regained her ability to speak, which she credits to her children’s insistence that she speak.

It has been over a month since the May 27 attack, in which Howell, 38 and a mother of 10 children, was stabbed multiple times, including in her shoulder, stomach, neck and head. The severity of the attack left the woman in a critical condition at the Georgetown Hospital,