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Patentia Secondary School student chopped after lessons
– One attacker reportedly admits to planning murder
Shaquille DaSilva, a 17-year-old student of the Patentia Secondary School is currently unable to attend school, as he is nursing chop wounds to the head and hand.
He was attacked on Friday night last.
According to the Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara resident, he was attacked at around 20:30 hrs, just minutes after leaving his teacher’s home in Sister’s Village where he was taking extra lessons.
An injured
Shaquille DaSilva
“About three of we did standing on the road and some ah dem boys from in the area did riding they bicycle across the road. We didn’t pay much attention to dem, and I didn’t even know that they did comin’ cover to we,” DaSilva said.
He explained that although the place was dark, he saw one of the boys running towards him and his friends holding a cutlass.
But before they could make an attempt to do anything, the boy was already standing in front of DaSilva, armed with a cutlass.
The injured teen said that before he and his friends could react, he (DaSilva) was dealt with a blow from behind that caused him to fall to the ground.
“I don’t really know who hit me from behind,” DaSilva pointed out.
However, as he lay there, with blood oozing from the back of his head, DaSilva said that the boy, who he saw with the cutlass, began hacking him.
“After somebody chopped me in my head from behind, I fall down, and while I deh on de ground, the other boy that did walk up in front of me, start tekin de cutlass and chopping ‘Wild West.’”
The lad said that his friends then raised an alarm, after which his teacher’s husband ran out of the yard, chasing the attackers away.
DaSilva was then rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was admitted and treated.
In addition to several stitches to the head, DaSilva also suffered a severed vein and a few fractured bones in the left hand.
Following a court hearing on Tuesday, the teenager accused of chopping DaSilva was remanded to prison until March 21, while two of his accomplices were placed on $75,000 bail.
The whereabouts of the youngster, who DaSilva said, is responsible for severing his vein and fracturing his bones is currently unknown. However, the injured teen’s mother, Colleen Blair, told this newspaper yesterday that police ranks have promised that an arrest warrant will be issued for the accused.
This publication understands that one of the defendants has confessed to planning how to kill DaSilva and a friend.
According to DaSilva, he and his friend became targets a few weeks ago, after they intervened and helped to part a fight involving another friend and DaSilva’s attacker who is on the run.
“Me ain’t really know dem boys this properly, but is because we part the fight mek dey start holding this thing against we,” DaSilva said.
Da Silva’s mother, Blair, said that she has been able to confirm that her son’s attackers are regular “bad boys” who are usually a nuisance to their community and the neighbouring school.
“The boys claim that they are all 16-year-olds, but they don’t go to school. The teacher said that the boys left school long, so how can they still be 16? Anyways, from what I understand, these are the usual bad boys to the area, and they usually harass students who go to the lesson and who attend Patentia Secondary,” the woman said.
Despite being in pain, Blair said that her son, who is preparing to sit the upcoming Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, will be returning to school on Monday.
“While the police dealing with the matter and so, he will be going back to school, and thankfully is not his right hand that got injured, so he can write.”
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