A gang of men armed with a G clamp, a cutlass and a syringe filled with a poisonous substance attacked a Samantha Point man at his home last Friday beating him severely but fled the scene before injecting him with the poison.
The man, Shawn Lewis was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital and rushed to emergency surgery. His skull was fractured in two places; he suffered a broken left arm and had a gaping wound in the same arm and there were lacerations behind his neck and on his back.
Lewis speaking from his family’s home on the East Bank of Demerara yesterday after he was discharged from hospital told Stabroek News that the incident is puzzling. He said he has no idea who would want to harm him. However, he said that the men who attacked him had a plan to not only harm but kill him since the police recovered the syringe filled with the poison. The G clamp was also found at the scene.
He pointed out that since he moved into the apartment he is renting at Samantha Point persons have broken in countless times, recently he lost a cellular phone. According to Lewis’s relatives, the break-ins were strange because there were no signs of forced entry anywhere in the apartment.
On the recent occasion Lewis was sleeping when his apartment was broken into and items were stolen. He told this newspaper that even then there was no sign of forced entry.
He recalled that when he arrived home on Friday night around 7:30 pm he attempted to turn on his lights but they suddenly stopped working. He later learned that someone had taken out the starter for the electricity panel. He said that just as he opened the door someone hit him in the head. Then it was continuous blows. He said the men probably fled after persons in the area spotted them because the beating took place in his doorway.
Lewis called out for help for sometime before two men in the area found him and rushed him to the hospital.
The police have been contacted and are investigating the incident. Lewis said he had several other complaints at the station regarding the break-ins but the police showed no interest in the matters.
