Report: Mother stabbed by man accused of setting Stonybrook apartment ablaze
CBS12 reporter Yaremi Farinas has the latest on the Stonybrook apartment fire . (WPEC) RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A newly released report shed light on the circumstances surrounding the apartment fire that nearly claimed the lives of three children. The report says Trenice Smith, the mother of the children, ran out of the apartment half naked after 22-year-old Velmando Williams, the father of her two sons, stabbed her in the back of the head with a knife during an argument. Latoya Rentz remembers the moment Smith noticed her three small kids were trapped inside a burning apartment . “When I looked at the window and they started getting black and stuff I'm like, 'Oh my God,'” Rentz said. “The girl Trenice was saying the kids were locked in." Williams locked Smith out of the apartment as she called for help, police said. “He don’t even know what he did to Trenice, what he did to her family,” Rentz said. Below is the recording of a 911 call that captured the cha...