A handyman employed at Rabbie Snackette and Variety Store is nursing several chop wounds about his body, after a group of men asked attacked and chopped him early Monday morning.
The proprietor of the Thomas and New Market streets snackette said Lawrence Kennedy was seated outside of the snackette when a group of men drove up to him and asked him for money and attacked him when he said he didn’t have any. He is currently an in-patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Lawrence, who lives with the snackette’s owner and assists him with chores around the shop, is said to be mentally-challenged. The proprietor said he does not know where Lawrence lived previously he only knows him from seeing across the street. He also disclosed that the man had been robbed twice before but believes that because of his disability he did not report either incident. Further, the proprietor said that in one of those incidents, Lawrence had also been chopped by a group of men.
The snackette’s proprietor also noted that since the incident, the police have yet to take a statement from the injured man.