Family of stabbed Sophia teen urging cops to do more to find suspect

Alicia McPherson

Nine months after Sophia teenager Alicia McPherson was stabbed about 42 times about her body allegedly by Shivanand Roopnarine, her boyfriend of two years, her family believes justice is being denied, as no arrest was ever made in the matter.

On April 20, 2015, the 18-year-old was found in a pool of blood behind a toilet at a dance held in ‘B’ Field Sophia, shortly after Roopnarine was seen assaulting her. There were visible stab wounds to her temple and neck.

The police had issued a wanted bulletin for Roopnarine called ‘Shiv’ or ‘Tuck’ whose last known address was