Chadiraj Lall, the Enmore man who was stabbed several times about the body on Monday night by a man who reportedly said that he came to kill him, is recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Lall, 49, was stabbed to his neck, back and arm and also sustained a punctured lung during the attack. According to information reaching Stabroek News, Lall, also known as ‘Dharmendra’ was in his Newtown Enmore, East Coast Demerara home when he was attacked by a man and stabbed five times about his body. He was rushed to the hospital and has made significant progress in his recovery even as his family ponder why someone would want to kill him.
Lall’s mother, Dorin Lall, 67, with whom he lives, told Stabroek News yesterday that her son had woken at around 10pm to eat dinner when the incident happened. “He don’t eat in the afternoon properly so he does eat in the night and he come out and going into the kitchen for the food and I tell he don’t eat all the food and leave some for me,” Dorin recalled. She said that she was in her bedroom at the time and her son mentioned that the kitchen window on the south-eastern side of the house was open.
“When he come out he said, ‘mommy look the kitchen window open and the rain and breeze going to come in’. Me said the breeze must be blow out the window and he said ‘mommy, somebody in the house’ and I said it can’t be true,” the woman recalled. According to Dorin, her son proceeded to search the house and eventually encountered the assailant in an unoccupied room.
A brawl ensued, which Dorin said lasted for several minutes. “He said the boy in the room and he shout ‘mommy watch the man in the room’ and then all me hear he saying is ‘don’t stab me, boy’. And I said `what!’ and I put on the light,” the woman recalled.
Dorin said that after she turned on the light, she kept hearing the commotion in the room as her son hollered and the assailant continued to attack. During the attack, Lall was able to grab and unmask the man, which prompted the attacker to run out the room and into the living room where Dorin was.
The woman related that after she saw the man, she opened the kitchen door to let him out after he told her that he was there to kill her son and not rob them.
“Eventually after he boring me son and me son grabble he head and pull the mask and we see he. He get stab all over, his hand everything. He (Chadiraj) had a cutlass and every time he try fuh pick it up, the boy stab he. When he reach out, he said ‘Mudds I didn’t come for money, I come to kill he’ and so I open the door and let he out,” the woman related.
She said that as soon as the attacker fled, she ran to her son and found him lying on the ground in a pool of blood. He was immediately rushed to the GPH where he was treated. He remains hospitalised.
“I don’t know why they would want to kill him. Me son don’t trouble nobody and you could ask anyone,” Dorin said, while adding that they were able to identify the assailant as “Chris.” She said that he is known to them and is usually around the area and had even assisted the family with odd jobs before.