After her ex-boyfriend violently stabbed her eight times with a kitchen knife, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down, a Texas mother says she had to ‘play dead’ to save her children.
Brittany Morris, 31, had been in an ‘on and off’ relationship with Rondell Raman Malveaux, the father of her twin toddlers, for three years.
Morris claims that after they broke up in August of 2019, Malveaux showed up at her house in the dead of night and stabbed her eight times with a kitchen knife, as reported by to the Daily Mail.
Morris claimed she pretended to be dead while being stabbed so her ex would leave without injuring their twin sons. The young mother’s neck, back, hip, and face all had near-fatal wounds.
She was stabbed in the neck four times, as well as the back, hip, side, and face. From the chest down, she was entirely paralyzed.
Malveaux fled after the incident, removing all of the phones from the house to keep Morris from contacting the police. According to Morris, he later came back to collect her car keys from her sister in order to make a hasty getaway, and she acted like she was dead all through the time.
She told Daily Mail, ‘I saw his shadow trying to get in my bedroom window with the knife. He kicked the front door wide open. I walked him outside and sat in the chair on the porch and he just yelled at me.’
‘He was like “So you’re done with me, this is it?” and I said “Yes” and then he just started stabbing away right into my neck to the spine and so I was paralyzed instantly,’ she said.
Morris’ sister knocked on neighbors’ doors after he left until an ambulance could be summoned.
He allegedly told Morris that he ‘didn’t want her to be with anyone else,’ prompting the attack.
In March 2020, Malveaux was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Jefferson County Court in Beaumont.
Morris stated that he may be eligible for parole in ten years, making her worried about her and her children’s safety. And in the meantime, she’s focused on supporting her children.
The mother is preparing for her driver’s license so she can drive an adapted vehicle with handles for the accelerator and brakes.
She said, ‘For years I’ve driven my wheelchair everywhere – to school, to get groceries, to take my children to the park. You can’t do much without transportation because you have to rely on people. I have to get back to driving.’
She added: ‘I’d be able to find work and do more therapy because I’d be able to transport myself. I also wouldn’t have to depend on people to drive my children to school or do things for me, ’ she added.