By Staff Reporter A 24-YEAR-OLD Kwekwe woman allegedly killed her 5-year-old stepson through strangling in an incident that has shocked neighbours in her Redcliff community. Alice Chikomo, a Torwood resident, is believed to have strangled Dean Dube with her bare hands before hiding the minor’s corpse in the house. Chikomo, according to police sources, went on to lock the boy’s eight-year-old sister in a bedroom she also allegedly tried to set on fire. She has since been arraigned before Kwekwe magistrate Florence Nago after she was caught in Harare to where she had fled after committing the heinous crime.