been A St Ann man living in Florida has been charged with “murder without premeditation” after he called 911 to say he accidentally stabbed his wife to death, Broward County Police said Monday.Charged with murder is former Colegate, 38-year-old St Ann resident, Alrick Oral Brown for the death of his wife, 15 years his senior, Dacota Stewart-Dick, 53.Reports are that the two had a fight after brown claimed he had seen her kissing another man. The woman was stabbed several times and Brown reportedly said she had stabbed him first. He said when she indicated she was “cold’ and about to die, he drank bleach to die with her. Brown had stab wounds too, but police are not sure whether they were self inflicted.Reports said the two had been living together for at least three years in the upscale community but it was not known how long they had been married, nor was Stewart-Dick’s origin detailed. She worked at a Florida college but no occupation was given for Brown in the various reports.When he was in Jamaica he worked at Ocho Rios, St Ann area companies Quick Shots and Dolphin C ove and live in Colegate, just outside Ocho Rios at the eastern end of Fern Gully.According to the Florida newspaper Sun Sentinel, Sheriff’s deputies found Stewart-Dick on the floor of the couple’s home of Northwest 78th Manor in the upscale, gated Heron Bay development on Sunday morning, February 2. Reports said the homes in the community cost at least half million US dollars, or J$50 Million, each.In the master bedroom were two bloody messages: “Im sorry” and simply “sorry,” according an arrest report released Monday.According to the newspaper, when lawmen arrived at the house, Stewart-Dick’s husband, Alrick Oral Brown, 38, answered the door. They asked him who else was in the house and he said, “My wife and she is dead,” according to the arrest report. Brown confessed to the crime, deputies said.
BODY ALL DAY
Brown told deputies he went to the Sheriff Office’s Parkland substation to report the incident, but it was closed. He went back home and called 911 “because he did not want to be with the victim’s body all day,” according to the report.Stewart-Dick was found two hours after she died and had “several defensive stab wounds to her left hand and to both arms,” according to the report. She was also found with a knife in her hand that might have been placed by Brown after her death, according to police documents.
KISSING
Brown told deputies he had argued with his wife because he saw her kissing another man the day before, records show. Stewart-Dick didn’t want to argue anymore and had tried to walk away from Brown, he told police. He didn’t know she had a knife, and when he grabbed her by her shirt and asked her to talk about the other man, she stabbed him in the stomach, Brown told deputies. He got the knife away, so she went to the kitchen and got another one, according to the report.He told deputies he grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her and she stabbed him in the neck. He then grabbed the knife out of her hands and began to stab her. She fell to the living room floor and asked what he was doing, and he allegedly told her that he was stabbing her because she stabbed him first.
He told deputies she put up her hands and arms to defend herself, according to the report.
“Brown stated that the victim told him not to do this two to three times while he was stabbing her,” according to the report. She pulled herself into the kitchen, asked for help to get up, but Brown told her he wouldn’t help, and to get up herself, according to the report.He told deputies he tied her hands with gray tape after she grabbed his genitals. Officials said the duct tape was removed by Brown after her death.Brown said after Stewart-Dick told him she was getting cold, he went to his bedroom, changed his clothes and drank Clorox bleach “because he wanted to die with the victim.””Brown stated that at some point he put the larger knife next to the victim but did not know if he put it in the victim’s hand as found on scene,” according to the report.Brown was taken to Broward Health North hospital in Pompano Beach to be treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. He remained in the hospital Monday, according to Sheriff’s spokeswoman Dani Moschella. Deputies said he suffered a stab wound to his stomach and had three small cuts on his neck.The couple had lived together in their Parkland home for three years and had no history of police calls to their house, said the Sheriff’s Office.Stewart-Dick worked at Palm Beach State College, where she helped incoming freshman adjust to college life, school officials said.A candlelight vigil was held Wednesday afternoon for students, faculty and staff at the MLK Plaza of the Lake Worth campus, the school said.
