Edmond Aaron St. Clair was stabbed to death this weekend during an alleged fight in University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The 21-year-old was killed in front of his brother and a friend who were visiting Edmond during the university’s homecoming weekend. His longtime girlfriend Rhoda Boateng grieves over his death.
Police say St. Clair was driving his girlfriend’s Honda about 9:00 p.m. Saturday, through the Princess Anne campus to pick up Chinese food, with his brother Isaiah St. Clair and longtime friend and cousin Tre Hardy, when they came across three men walking in the street when a fight broke out.
The three men, identified only as black men in their late teens or early 20s, stood in the road and wouldn’t move. Isaiah said in an interview that Edmond told him and his friend to wait in the car while he went to talk to them. Edmond was stabbed in the heart. His brother knelt next to him and held the wound while Hardy ran to find a campus police officer.
“He said, ‘Someone just stabbed me,'” Isaiah St. Clair. “I was like, ‘Stop playing.’ He was like, ‘Yeah, look.’ He showed me his hand. ‘I got stabbed in my heart.”
His girlfriend of nearly four years, Rhoda Boateng, is eight months pregnant with St. Clair’s baby girl. This makes the loss even harder for her. Edmond was expecting his first child in April, a girl to be named Shiloh St. Clair.
“Just like that he’s gone,” said Rhoda Boateng.
“That’s all I care about is his baby that he created. You know what it feels like to have to tell a baby that your father is gone because of careless behavior, because of nonsense?” Boateng said.
His girlfriend says though he liked to party, beneath his tough exterior was a brilliant mind with a 3.8 grade point average. Edmond was an UMES junior biology major from Severn who graduated from Laurel High School in 2010. Friends, teachers, and family members said he excelled in college and dreamed of becoming a doctor or surgeon and had a passion for producing reggae-style music.
“Edmond did not just leave anything, he left his baby girl who will grow up and know how great her father was,” Boateng said.
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