Tonight, we have another story to report of a young woman brutally assaulted with a blade by her husband, in this case her ex-common law husband. 18-year-old Roaring Creek Resident Nazelie Neal lived to tell of how her ex came to her last night in a murderous rage. We spoke to her and her mother at the Belmopan Hospital today.
Today as her sister adjusts the dressing on Nazelie Neal's hand, you wouldn't know that this 18-year-old mother of two just survived a deadly attack from her ex common law husband Kurt Vasquez-Gill. From her hospital bed, she told us that she put him out on Saturday - and she went to the police on Sunday because he threatened to kill her. And because of that last night he came to her house in a rage; it all unfolded in front of her children, one two years old, the other three.
Nazelie Neal, Survived 15 Stabs
"Last night when I went outside to get my baby's bottle, he went outside and he attacked me. And we were there struggling and when we were struggling, my son told him to leave me alone and he went towards my baby. And as he went towards my baby, I went in front of my son and I told him to go inside. Then when I did that, I slipped down and I knocked my head and by the time I managed to get up, he already had the knife and that is when he stabbed me behind my leg. When I got up, because when he already did that, I still managed to get up, and when I got up, that is when he stabbed me right here."
After that she collapsed, and he continued to stab her even after she fell on the ground - a total of 15 times according to doctors, including stabs to her breast and legs.
Nazelie Neal,
"I told him to leave me alone and that is when he stabbed me right here on my breast and then after that I just passed out, I don't know how I got the next two stabs on my hand and on my leg."
Today her mother Loretta Neil was outraged, but grateful:
Loretta Neil, Mother
"I am happy that she is alive because when I got the message from my sister I was touched but I feel a lot hurt because she is my first baby and I struggled a lot to help her alone and so by that I was so touched."
And while she's touched, she wants police to arrest the man who tried to kill her daughter.
Loretta Neil,
"I am not about it because the children are so young, three years and 2 years old. That is shock to anyone because everyone has a child and that is not right to do to anyone. We should come and love each other and kill someone. I feel something needs to be done about this. I just hope he gives up himself before it is too late because the running he is doing won't do any good, it will only make worse and longer for him and he should have think about how he just stabbed this girl and I live with this girl, I sleep next to this girl, this girl does everything for me as a woman and man should do for other and he just stabbed her like that. It is not nice man, it is not something nice."
And this mother has advice for this young man.
Loretta Neil,
"If I meet him face to face I would tell him to sit down and ask why he did this to my daughter. I would tell him I don't feel he should have done this. If he even got angry, he should have just gotten up and walked and take it out of something and not my daughter because she didn't do that to him. Why did he have to do her that and she cares for him? I think he did wrong and he shouldn't have done it. He is a man, be a man and not be a boy because he already has a child. So I would say to him how would he like it if someone just came and stabbed his daughter like how I felt it for my daughter. I am strong here because of the good Lord but I don't know about him where he is. And he has a daughter so if someone came and just stabbed her, how you think he would feel."
And now Nazelie Neal says she may be suffering form he wounds, but she is not intimidated:
Nazelie Neal,
"I am not afraid of him. He already threatened and told me it is not done yet and that he would kill me. I am not afraid of him and I will not back down from it because he wasn't supposed to do something like this because he saw it on the news already how those men kill their ladies and thing like that and I don't know why he did that in front of my kids. I am not backing down from it, no matter what."
Kurt Vasquez also known as Kurt Gill is still at large. He faces charges of attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm.
