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Ann’s Grove man stabbed, fights for life

Aug 06, 2009 News

Marlon Johnson, 21, a Two Friends Village, East Coast Demerara resident was up to last night fighting for his life in the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was stabbed below his heart by another villager.
According to reports he was stabbed with a pair of scissors by a man who had one day earlier, made threats on his life.
The stabbing occurred while Johnson was involved in a scuffle with the man’s son at the Ann’s Grove Market.
After being stabbed, Johnson ran several hundred meters to his father’s house and collapsed on the bridge before being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital by relatives and friends.
Eyewitnesses told this publication that the victim was in the vicinity of the Ann’s Grove market when a man stepped out of a minibus and immediately began taunting him (the victim) in a menacing manner.
Tempers flared and there was a threat to shoot the victim. Then the scuffle began.
One eyewitness who knew both parties, and is a villager, said, “The father run away from the scene and come back with a scissors and stabbed he in he chest.”
The victim’s mother, Doreen Holder, told this publication that the assailant, who was still not arrested up to press time, had threatened her son one day earlier.
“Yesterday he son complained to me about he and I went and spoke to he but he say he ain’t want hear nothing, that he gon kill me son and he family gon bury he if he dead now this happen.”

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