Female Student Stabs Boyfriend To Death Because Of This Reason?

* She self-reported the stabbing to police, admitted to the act during questioning

* She described a volatile relationship marked by prior domestic violence.

Kevaughn Goldson, 23, a senior men’s track and field athlete at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, and his girlfriend Denita Jackson, also a senior sprinter on the women’s team, shared more than just campus life.

The couple’s relationship, described by Jackson herself as volatile and punctuated by past domestic incidents, unraveled in tragedy on February 21, 2026.

According to a probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE magazine, the fatal confrontation began over a seemingly trivial issue — a broken bottle of cologne Jackson had agreed to replace.

Goldson spent the night at her residence.

The next morning, Jackson left for work while he slept.

Returning early, she found the bedding disturbed and Goldson missing from her room.

Suspicion led Jackson to her roommate’s door. Using a hair clip to unlock it, she reportedly discovered Goldson and the roommate in bed together — clothed — with the cologne bottle between them.

Jackson told investigators she jumped onto the bed, grabbed the cologne and Goldson’s shirt, igniting a physical fight with him kicked her in the stomach, knocking her into a mirror, and later pinned her to the floor, choking her.

In the chaos, Jackson said she spotted a knife under the roommate’s bed, grabbed it, and stabbed Goldson once in the back. When he did not immediately stop, she stabbed him again in the chest.

The roommate fled the room during the struggle.

Jackson then called 911 to report the stabbing.

Police arrived to find Goldson in the living room with stab wounds to his chest and back, plus minor scratches consistent with a fight.

He was rushed to Capital Region Medical Center, photographed, then airlifted to University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia.

He died during surgery.

Jackson, from Berbice, Guyana, was arrested on February 23, 2026, after a warrant was issued.

She faces second-degree murder and armed criminal action charges and is held without bond.

Cole County Prosecutor Locke Thompson confirmed the charges to local outlet KMIZ.