Guyanese student charged for fatally stabbing boyfriend at US university

Cole County prosecutors filed charges against a 27-year-old Jefferson City woman in connection to the stabbing death of a Lincoln University student athlete early Monday morning near the university’s campus. Denita A. Jackson is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection to the incident, which the Jefferson City Police Department described as a weapons offence in a Monday news release. Kevaughn Goldson, 23, died following the stabbing, Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Locke Thompson told KOMU 8 News Tuesday afternoon. Goldson was a senior sprinter with Lincoln men’s track and field, according to the Lincoln University Athletics website. He was from Kingston, Jamaica, and attended Kingston College, an all-boys secondary school, according to the Lincoln University Athletics website. Jackson, also identified in court documents as a Lincoln University student, called police to report she had stabbed a man at her residence just after 1 a.m. Monday, according to a probable cause statement.

The Lincoln University Athletics website also identifies Jackson as a senior sprinter from Berbice, Guyana. In an interview with police, Jackson allegedly told investigators she was in a yearslong “volatile relationship” with the man she had stabbed and was involved in domestic violence reports, according to the probable cause statement. Court documents said Jackson lived with three other women at a house in the 800 block of Fairmount Boulevard and that the victim did not live there but stayed over occasionally. Jackson allegedly stabbed the victim after she came home from work early and found him and her roommate in her roommate’s room, according to a probable cause statement that cited testimony from Jackson and her roommate who witnessed the incident. After she used a hair clip to unlock her roommate’s door, Jackson allegedly jumped on the bed and grabbed the victim by his shirt, according to the probable cause statement. He then allegedly kicked her in the stomach to the floor. Jackson told police that as she was on the floor, the victim began to choke her, according to the statement. She said she spotted a knife under her roommate’s bed, grabbed it and used it to stab the victim in the back, according to the statement. She said he didn’t react so she stabbed him again in the chest, according to the probable cause statement. Jackson then called 911 to report the incident, according to court documents. Court documents said the victim had multiple small scratches consistent with being in a physical fight in addition to stab wounds in the back and chest. Police said his injuries were photographed at the Capital Region Medical Center emergency room and investigators attempted to interview him but said he was “uncooperative,” according to the probable cause statement. The man was taken by helicopter to University Hospital for surgery, where he died in the operating room, according to court documents. Lincoln University said in a Monday statement that one of its students was killed in an off-campus incident. Jackson is being held in the Cole County Jail without bond, according to jail records. A court appearance has not yet been scheduled. (KOMU 8 News)