Aubrey McClennon called ‘Jack’ of Haslington, East Coast Demerara was rushed to the Georgetown Public hospital nursing serious injuries following the attack. The incident occurred just after 10 am outside Kwality at the Berbice car park.
Reports are that McClennon, a popular driver at the car park, was at his car closing a door when the man pounced on him. He was stabbed at least twice before fleeing his car to seek cover under a minibus a short distance away, but his attacker pursued him.
Eyewitnesses told Stabroek News that the man might have been watching McClennon before he decided to attack. One account was that the man was standing across the road from McClennon looking in his direction before approaching him.
“I didn’t know is attack he attacking da man ya know,” an eyewitness said at the hospital yesterday. He said many persons at the park only realized what was happening when the man brandished a long blade and started stabbing McClennon, who at that time, was attempting to hide under the minibus.
The man managed to stab McClennon a few more times before people intervened and pulled the severely wounded taxi-driver from under the minibus.
His attacker tried to fight his way through the crowd with the blade and was severely beaten by the angry crowd.
Stabroek News was told that city police had to rescue the man from the crowd and reports are that even after he was in custody people tried to attack him. “This man juke up Jack real bad, is serious, serious juke this man gat,” a friend said yesterday. He was covered in blood which he said came from McClennon.
The friend described the attack as gruesome saying that McClennon was bleeding profusely and “all over the park.”
One of McClennon’s relatives who turned up at the hospital was too distraught to speak, but he commented that the taxi-driver was “hurt bad.” He added, “I watch he and he is conscious but is like if a part of he stomach coming out.”
No one at the hospital could say whether McClennon had any problems with his attacker, but they all said that the man has mental issues. They related that the man has been in trouble with the law numerous times since he returned to Guyana as a deportee.
“This man head ain’t good, he been in so many stories before,” a woman said. She said the man lived in her village on the East Coast and that even people there are afraid of him.
