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Mentally ill man dead after police shooting
The damaged car
Police have shot and killed a mentally challenged man below his knee, one day after he destroyed a Danielstown family’s car and assaulted a pregnant woman.
The man, Leon Alphonso, a/k “Bholo”, of Danielstown Village was shot in the leg. He was subsequently taken to the Anna Regina Police station, then to the Suddie Public Hospital for medical attention.
Late last evening the police reported that he was being transported to Leonora Cottage Hospital when he succumbed.
Police had no option other than to shoot when they tried to apprehend the mentally challenged man since he had posed numerous difficulties in the past.
The man usually walked from his Danielstown home to the Anna Regina Old market every day. While he does not attack people, residents were scared of him.
Bibi N. Singh, whose car windscreens were destroyed and her pregnant daughter assaulted by the man, said that around one o’clock Tuesday afternoon, “Bholo” entered her yard.
Singh said that “Bholo” usually visits her home, (since she operates a shop) every day and requests one bottle of Guinness, along with a bottle of Banko wine. Singh said twice every day she would give “Bholo” those items in an attempt to ward him away from her premises.
Singh said, that on the day in question, she was inside when she heard a sound and when she and her daughter, Narifa Singh, who is five months’ pregnant checked, they saw “Bholo”.
Singh said that when she and her daughter left the house they saw “Bholo” lying under their car, which was parked in front of their yard.
Singh said she begged the man not to do anything but the mentally challenged man proceeded to destroy the car windscreens.
The distraught woman said that she cried and begged the man to stop but he continued. She said her daughter then attempted to enter the car to remove it from where it was parked but the mentally challenged man turned his anger towards her. Singh said that he pushed her daughter down.
Singh said that her daughter has been since hospitalized. She is unsure whether she would lose her baby.
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