- The seven-year-old boy who witnessed the killing of his mother, 35-year-old Adeina Adana Alleyne, on Tuesday evening, desperately tried to save her life. The petite child tried to pull away his father, Dwight “Quan” Waldron, 34, who was chopping and stabbing Alleyne. The child was no match for his father, a security officer. Relatives told Newsday the boy then ran outside and alerted residents. The family’s spokesman Leon Phillip said, “He keeps repeating what he saw. He says Daddy was chopping Mummy. He said he was very frightened. “Today, he was in good spirits. He was playing with other children.”