Daughter recounts fatal stabbing of Linden woman

One of the daughters of Leolyn Sullivan, the Linden woman who was allegedly stabbed to death by her common-law husband on Monday morning, yesterday recounted witnessing her mother being killed as she and her sister watched on helplessly after unsuccessful efforts to intervene.

Sullivan, 34, a vendor and mother of six of Wisroc Housing Scheme, Linden, was stabbed over 15 times about her body by her partner, Clarence Carter, 50, in the attack. The man also wounded her daughter, Shemeka Campbell, 18, whom he stabbed to the neck and arm before turning the knife on himself in an unsuccessful bid to end his own life.

Saskeya Campbell, 16, was still trying to come to grips with her