24-year-old Stephen Jacob Reed was arrested in connection to a stabbing April 21 in Cleveland. Two mothers were killed in the stabbing, and a third victim is in critical condition. CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Deweana “Mimi” Biddwell thinks two women are dead and her brother is clinging to life at Erlanger hospital for the oldest reason in the world.
The night before Stephen Jacob Reed is said to have slashed Crystal York and Crystal Canino to death and critically wounded Anthony Beck, Biddwell said she heard him utter chilling, prophetic words.
“He said, ‘If I can’t have her, nobody can,'” Biddwell said Friday, standing at the mailbox across the street from her Springbrook Apartments home a day after chaos and violent death rocked the small neighborhood just off APD 40.
The neighborhood looked peaceful and undisturbed; no crime scene tape or evidence flags. Only a splash of dried blood on a door sill, above a stair landing holding pots of tulips and a jaunty little sign, “Welcome to my garden,” showed where the attack took place.
Biddwell and her neighbor, Stephanie Wilson, said folks in the curving street of fourplex apartments knew Reed, 24, was trouble.