A MAN is a patient under guard at New Amsterdam Hospital following the fatal chopping of a 17-year-old at Number 70 Village, Corentyne, also in Berbice.
The dead teen had intervened in a quarrel between his stepfather and a group of men on Sunday. Police said, about 19:15hrs, on April 29, mechanic Sasenarine Persaud called ‘Suraj’, of Number 70 became involved in an argument between his stepfather and some men, during which he was assaulted and chopped about his body.
Persaud was taken to Skeldon Hospital, at Corentyne, too, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
However, the hospitalised suspect was, subsequently, found with injuries.