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Loud music leaves Grove businessman critical
A 30-year-old man is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he was chopped several times about his body, while the alleged attacker ‘Boy’ is currently in police custody at the Diamond Police Station.
Dodeo Narine, of 26 North East Grove, East Bank Demerara, who operates a Rum Shop, popularly called ‘Back Shop’ was brutally attacked around 20:00 hours on Saturday.
The attacker also resides at North East Grove.
When this newspaper visited the scene, the victim’s wife was rushing to the hospital but was still able to describe the ‘terrible state’ her husband was in.
She related that Narine could not eat nor speak and was in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) at GPHC.
It was also understood that the incident stemmed from an argument over who could play their music the loudest.
The injured Dodeo Narine
According to the victim’s wife, Nadine Prasad, her husband was playing music to entertain his customers at the shop but stopped the music sometime around 8:00pm.
He then proceeded to turn off the music in his car, which was parked at his gate.
It was after Narine stopped his music, that his neighbour continued in a louder tone.
This affected Narine’s 11-month old baby who they had recently put to sleep, since the neighbour’s ‘music equipment’ was situated right opposite the baby’s room.
This led to the businessman going over to his neighbour’s yard to politely explain that his baby was asleep and requested that the volume of the music be lowered.
But the neighbour became annoyed and started an argument.
He then ran inside of his house and collected a cutlass and rushed out to Narine.
According to the victim’s wife, her husband thought it was a piece of wood that the neighbour had in his hand, hence he picked up a plank in order to defend himself.
However his efforts failed when several chops rained down on his body.
The attack only stopped when other neighbours intervened.
The badly injured man was rushed to the hospital, while is attacker was later arrested when he went to report the matter to the police at the Diamond/Grove Police Station. (Romila Boodram)
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