ONE man has been taken into custody while his brother is being sought by the police following the brutal chopping of 19-year-old William Hendricks of Canterbury Walk, Beterverwagting, (B.V.) East Coast Demerara during a game of football in the village last Wednesday.

A misunderstanding between Hendricks and the two brothers developed during the game, being played at Ogle Street, B.V., and it turned ugly and ended with Hendricks being brutally chopped about the body, jooked in the left eye, and left bleeding on the ground.

One week later, Hendricks remains warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he is being treated for chop wounds to the right shoulder and right wrist, and left shin and left thigh.
Hendricks claims that major blood vessels in his arm have been severed, causing him to bleed profusely.

He recalled that he was playing the game when, at around 17:30 hrs, an argument erupted between himself and a man he knows as ‘Bujas’, and it developed into a ‘scramble’ (fight), at which point Bujas’s brother, Melville, intervened.

Hendricks said Melville ran into a yard, picked up a cutlass, ran back to the scene and began chopping him. Hendricks said he fainted under pain and shock, collapsing to the ground. He estimates he would have been bleeding on the ground for about one hour before the police turned up at the scene.

Both brothers had by the fled, but the police managed to capture Bujas, while Melville has, to date, not been apprehended.
Written By Shirley Thomas