Denita Jackson Lincoln University (LU) student and athlete arrested stabbing to death boyfriend, Kevaughn Goldson after catching LU track-star in bed with one of her roommates. History of prior domestic violence.
A college track star was allegedly stabbed to death by his girlfriend, also a track and field athlete after purportedly finding her boyfriend in bed with her roommate. The girlfriend has since claimed she was ‘defending herself.’
Lincoln University sprinter Denita Jackson, 27, upon her arrest was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action following the incident in Jefferson City, Missouri.
The victim has been identified as Kevaughn Goldson, 23, who was also a sprinter on the LU track and field team.
Volatile relationship between Lincoln University, Missouri student track athletes.
Court documents cited by KOMU stated the couple being in a romantic relationship albeit with a prior history of domestic violence.
Police said Jackson came home early from work on Monday morning because she wasn’t feeling well, having left Goldson in her bedroom just hours before.
However, when she returned home at around 1am on Monday, Jackson could hear her roommate talking to someone in their room.
With the door locked, Jackson used a hair clip to get inside and discovered Goldson and the roommate in bed together. They were fully dressed.
Female LU track athlete claims self defense
Jackson is said to have leapt onto the bed, grabbed Goldson and started to fight with him. Police said he retaliated by kicking Jackson in the stomach, which made her fall off the bed.
Jackson claims Goldson got on top of her and started to choke her. At that moment, Jackson says she grabbed a knife from under the roommate’s bed and stabbed Goldson in both the back and chest according to abc17news.com.
Jefferson City Police Department officers were dispatched to the home in the 800 block of Fairmount Boulevard at 1:09am on Monday after Jackson called 911.
Goldson was taken to the Capital Region Emergency Room but police were unable to interview him.
He was later transferred by helicopter to University Hospital, where he later died during surgery. Jackson was arrested and booked into Cole County Jail on Monday without bond.
Goldson was a senior from Jamaica who was a sprinter on the LU track and field team, according to the LU Athletics website.
Jackson is also a senior sprinter, whose hometown is listed as Berbice, Guyana.
‘Our thoughts are with family, friends, faculty, staff and all who have been impacted by this tragic situation,’ Lincoln University said in a statement.
