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‘Vigilantes’ viciously beat ‘bird catchers’
Three young individuals, instead of enjoying their original pursuit of catching birds, found themselves in the clutches of an angry group, who appeared to be vigilantes, in Dairy, West Bank Demerara, on Wednesday afternoon. 
The victims were viciously thrashed.
Conroy Washington, 24, Alex Parks, 15, and Shaquille Sears, 10, all residents of Dairy, suffered varying injuries.
Parks and Washington were admitted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) while Sears, a minor, was taken into police custody. Kaieteur News understands that they are cousins.
Parks’ mother, Alexis Elliot said that on Wednesday evening, she received a call from the hospital and was invited to the institution, because her son was “badly beaten”.
Elliot recounted rushing off to the hospital immediately after the phone call ended.
“When I got to the hospital, I saw the doctor stitching his left arm and he had already received stitches to his left ear. I asked him what went on and he said that about fifteen men armed with cutlasses came up from behind and started beating them up, took off their clothes, tied them up and then put them in red ants nest to sit.”
Kaieteur News was told that the teen was kicked repeatedly to his head which now continues to swell. Parks has been complaining about severe pain in his head and doctors have advised that he be admitted to the institution for observation.
The distraught mother said that she was informed by a reliable source that her son’s attack was one of three within the last two weeks in connection with a robbery at Middle Dam (Independence Street) in Dairy.
Parks suffered the worst beating in Wednesday’s mob attack as the group of ‘so-called vigilantes’ has accused him of murdering an elderly woman last Saturday night.
The teen’s aunt, only name given as Gail, was visibly traumatized by the incident. She heckled “is just like that you does beat people children… my nephew is only fifteen. Like they don’t have children.”
According to reports, the bound youths, who insisted that they were catching birds at the time they were attacked, were rescued by a villager who took them to La Grange Police Station, and they were escorted by ranks to the hospital.
Conroy was discharged from the hospital while Parks remains a patient. The family has hinted that the young man may be transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for further treatment.
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