Nordette Spain, 26, reported to police that her home, located at #5 Maskall Street, was invaded last night between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. and that she and her children’s lives were threatened by the home invader, who, ironically, is a female complainant in a case against Spain.
“I was going to take a shower and I had a towel wrapped around me when I heard someone call out my name,” said Spain, who is a single mother of two young children.
“The person hollered, ‘Nordette!’ It was a female voice. I thought it was my friend, Isabella. I looked through my window, but I did not recognize the person, because she had her back turned. When I opened the door, she forced her way into my house, armed with a gun and a knife.
“Then she told me to close the door. She asked me who was here with me. I told her it was just me and my children. She then told me to go into the bathroom. But while I was heading to the bathroom, in the corridor, she said to me, ‘Yu wan mek a juk wid dis knife, or yu wan mek a shoot yu wid dis gun?”
The home invader, Rosalie Williams, was not smiling, as she held “a rusty” handgun on Spain, who said that that was the first time she had come in contact with a gun.
“I pleaded with her not to kill me. Then she asked me if I wanted her to go and kill my children first, then come back and kill me afterwards,” Spain recounted to Amandala.
“I asked her if she wanted money. But she said that she did not want money or anything. Again, I pleaded with her not to kill me. Then she said that I did ‘lone fool,’ because I was supposed to have pleaded guilty.”
“But I pleaded not guilty,” Spain explained.
When asked what she was supposed to plead guilty about, Spain said that she had gone to the Magistrate’s Court on Monday after Rosalie Williams had made out a complaint against her and brought police to her house on Saturday, August 2, to arrest her.
The quarrel, we understand, is reportedly over a man.
After detaining her for a little more than an hour, police eventually gave her a station bail and allowed her to return home to her two young children who were left in the house alone.
Spain was charged for using threatening words to Rosalie Williams. According to the police complaint sheet, Spain allegedly threatened Williams on July 4, 2008 at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Banak Street, saying: “I wah dash fu….ing acid eena yu face.”
It is anybody’s guess why Williams did not file a complaint before August 2, 2008, since the incident that she was complaining to the police about allegedly took place almost one month ago.
But PC 143 Gregory Cayetano had no difficulty in swearing to the complaint and arresting Spain on Saturday evening, just as she was having a small birthday party for one of her children.
According to Spain, Williams had been harassing her for over five years, “even when I was pregnant with my two kids.”
“I am tired of it. I don’t know what to do. I am afraid to stay here by myself,” a frustrated sounding Spain told Amandala.
According to a police report dated today, Williams told Spain that, “When you go back to court, plead guilty!”
Williams then left the house and rode off on a bicycle, said police.
Threatening someone with a gun is serious business, and police reported that at press time tonight they are still looking for Rosalie Williams.