“I had to jump in a trench to get away from he the first time,” said Jason Marshall, an 18-year-old East Ruimveldt youth who was stabbed seven times about the body.
Marshal, who lives at 429 East Ruimveldt, is currently a patient in Ward B2 at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He was admitted to the hospital just after 9 pm Tuesday and is nursing several stab wounds about the body.
According to the young man, prior to the incident he was at a football match being played at a community centre in East Ruimveldt. Marshall said that he was arguing with another youth and his assailant was looking on.
“Me and another one of my age group was having a lil scuffle downstairs at the community centre. He (Marshall’s attacker) was standing on the step then he push he self in we story and he leave de game to go home,” Marshall explained.
The young man told Stabroek News that when he noticed his assailant leave he called his cousin because he “knew the other man went home to get something.” Marshal said that he left the football game just after 8.30 pm.
“I see he coming at me on a bicycle with a big kitchen knife in he hand so I run and jump in a nearby trench to get away from he,” the injured youth explained. “After I see he ride and gone somewhere else I get out and continued walking home. Next thing I know he come up behind me and all I feel is two stabs in me back.”
After the initial wounds, Marshall said, he collapsed to the ground and the man then dealt him several more stabs. It was while trying to block the knife thrust that he was wounded in the left arm.
Further, Marshall explained that after his attacker left he got up and began to run but didn’t get very far because he was dizzy.
“I just start to feel dizzy and I de feeling nuff blood coming out,” Marshall said.
The injured youth said that he made several attempts to get a taxi to transport him to the hospital but all of the drivers refused. A friend later discovered him, Marshall said, and it was he who managed to get a taxi.
Marshal was stabbed in his back, left arm and in the general area of his rib and stomach. When this newspaper visited him at the GPH he was said to be in stable condition.