Linden boy stabbed to death

Jamal Nedd

A four-year-old boy was stabbed to death yesterday by a man he knew well moments after the killer had sexually assaulted a woman in a Wismar, Linden home.

Jamal Nedd
Jamal Nedd

The perpetrator who according to reports recently lost his job at the Linden Post Office was arrested by police last evening.

Jamal Nedd, a student of the Burnham Drive Nursery School was stabbed about five times about the body and the instrument used – a knife- was left sticking out of his back. He died while being attended to at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC).

Police in a press release said that investigations have revealed that a man had entered the home and sexually assaulted a woman who managed to escape. The woman according to the police ran outside upon Nedd’s arrival from school.

The perpetrator, the police said, then held the child at knife point and threatened to kill him if the woman did not return to the house.

“She refused to do so, whereupon the suspect stabbed Nedd several times about the body and