SHOPKEEPER Mark Rodney, 39, of 515 Section ‘D’, South Turkeyen-Sophia is currently warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing severe chop wounds after being viciously attacked by a man outside the Stabroek Police Outpost on Monday night.The injured man, who vends on Commerce Street, Georgetown, was late Tuesday afternoon in the theatre for surgery. Relatives recalled that moments before the chopping incident, Rodney and his assailant’s mother had turned up at the police outpost, each claiming that they were verbally assaulted by the other.
While Rodney was exiting the police outpost, a man said to be the woman’s son pounced on him at the foot of the stairs and allegedly began chopping him. Rodney sustained several chops to the head as well as to both hands and fingers.
Persons who claimed they had witnessed the attack, said that when the man began to chop Rodney, two young male police ranks on duty in the outpost panicked and “dived for cover,” retreating deeper into the building.
But as the victim began crying out for help, another policeman, a plainclothes rank, fired three warning shots in the air, causing the knife-wielding man to flee. The plainclothes cop went in hot pursuit, apprehended him and took him to a police station. The police are continuing their investigation.