A 29-year-old Amelia’s Ward man was stabbed several times in the neck by two armed men who hijacked his car early yesterday morning, the second time this year he has lost a vehicle in this manner.
Kenrick Lawson of 792 South Amelia’s Ward, Linden had to undergo surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday. He was transferred from the McKenzie Hospital at about 2.30 am yesterday.
This newspaper learnt from Richard Lawson, the injured man’s brother and the owner of the hijacked car HB 4958, that his brother had picked up two men headed to Kara-Kara. His brother was attacked shortly before 2 am yesterday, he said, and robbed of the silver AE110 Corolla worth $2.2 million.
“He tell me he pick up two boys from Amelia’s Ward bus shed to take them to Kara-Kara,” Richard Lawson explained. “He (Kenrick) tell me that when they reach to the drop off point on Kara-Kara Road one of the boys pay him with a $1000 and is when he reaching for the change that they attack he.”
The men, Richard told Stabroek News, demanded that his brother hand over the car to them. According to him, Kenrick said he tried throw the keys out the vehicle, got out and dashed up the road in an attempt to escape his attackers.
“De guys probably thought he run away with the keys and they run behind him and one of them stab he up in the neck,” Richard reported. “But he (Kenrick) didn’t manage to throw the keys away and the guys went back found the car and get away with it.”
Kenrick was then forced to walk a short distance along Kara-Kara Road before another car stopped and offered assistance. Kenrick was taken to the McKenzie Police Station where a report was made and officers later escorted him to the McKenzie Hospital for medical attention.
Richard told Stabroek News that he was in bed when he got the news and immediately rushed to the hospital.
“I went in de room where they had him on that medical table and he didn’t look all that bad…I see three punctures on one side of he neck and two on de other,” he explained. The wounds, he further said, looked “as if they were caused by a small weapon like a screw driver”.
According to Richard the police at McKenzie assured him that they had informed their colleagues of the theft via radio and that a road block had been set up. However, he said that on his way to Georgetown there were no road blocks.
“We decided to go search on our own,” the owner of the car said. “I asked the cashier at the Harbour Bridge if the vehicle pass and she said yes but she couldn’t show me the receipt because of legal reasons,” he explained.
Richard said that when he got to the other side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge the receipt collector there also said that they had collected a receipt from HB4958 and that the vehicle had driven towards Vreed-en-Hoop.
“I went to Parika twice and up to Wales on the West Bank area but I saw nothing of the car…I made a report to the Parika Police Station as well but up to now I’ve heard nothing from the police,” Richard told Stabroek News yesterday afternoon.
According to him, this is not the first time that Kenrick has been robbed. “On Good Friday this year somebody hijack his car from him in Georgetown…it was a 212 and we still haven’t found that car.”
Kenrick had told Stabroek News then that around 11.30 pm on the night before Good Friday, he left Linden to travel to Georgetown with passengers in his motorcar, HB 5477, a white 212 model. According to him, after dropping off the passengers in Georgetown, he was at the West Demerara bus park around 1.30 am on Good Friday preparing to return to Linden when two men approached him and asked to be taken to the Back Road.
Kenrick said he told the men that he was from Linden and was preparing to leave, but they insisted that he could drop them off and make a “small piece” for himself. The Lindener took up the offer and the men; one sitting in the front seat and the other at the back caused him to drive through Cemetery Road, where they said they were going to pick up a female.
Kenrick said the men asked him to stop at a certain point where they bundled him out of his vehicle and proceeded to rob him. He said he scuffled with them, but they succeeded in stealing his cash, two cell phones and a radio set.
During the ordeal, the taxi driver said, the men also threatened to kill him. A man was later charged with carrying out this attack.
