College track athlete allegedly stabbed to death by girlfriend over suspected affair

The woman of a assemblage way and tract jock was arrested for allegedly stabbing her fellow to death. 

Kevaughn Goldson, a elder sprinter from Jamaica, was killed successful a stabbing disconnected Lincoln University’s field successful Jefferson City, Missouri. 

Goldson, 23, was recovered aft constabulary were called to a location connected Monday greeting with stab wounds successful his backmost and chest. He died from his injuries aft being taken to the hospital. 

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Denita Jackson, 27, has been charged with the execution of her boyfriend, Kevaughn Goldson, 23, aft an incidental astatine Lincoln University. (Lincoln University/Cole County Sheriff's Office)

"Our thoughts are with family, friends, faculty, unit and each who person been impacted by this tragic situation," Lincoln University told KRCG successful a property merchandise regarding Goldson’s death. 

"The well-being of our University assemblage is our top priority. Students and employees are reminded of counseling and different enactment services for those who request them."

Goldson’s girlfriend, Denita Jackson, was charged by Cole County prosecutors with second-degree execution and equipped transgression action. 

While successful a romanticist relationship, KMIZ successful Missouri reported that determination were past issues of home unit betwixt the two. Jackson, 27, besides ran way and tract astatine Lincoln University. 

Investigators questioned Jackson, who allegedly told them she believed Goldson was having an matter with 1 of her roommates, saying she recovered him successful furniture with her, some individuals being clothed, aft returning home.

General presumption of starting blocks and baton astatine the 120th Penn Relays astatine Franklin Field.  (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

Jackson opened her roommate’s locked doorway with a hairclip aft proceeding her roommate talking with idiosyncratic successful her room, according to tribunal documents. The docs said that Jackson jumped connected her roommate’s furniture and grabbed Goldson by the shirt, arsenic good arsenic a vessel of cologne that had allegedly been missing, starring to a fight. 

Goldson, then, allegedly started to choke Jackson portion connected apical of her, starring to the second grabbing a weapon from nether the furniture and stabbing the former. 

Jackson was allegedly the 1 to telephone constabulary regarding the incident, portion authorities initially took Goldson to Capital Regional Emergency Room. He was, then, airlifted to University Hospital, wherever helium yet died during surgery. 

General presumption of hurdles astatine a Track & Field event.  (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

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Goldson, who stood six-foot, 160 pounds, was a mediate region runner with the Blue Tigers earlier successful his assemblage vocation earlier moving into a sprinter relation with the program. 

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