A 25-year-old Lancaster, Corentyne man is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in a stable condition after he was stabbed and chopped during a fight with a fellow villager early yesterday morning.
Sherlando Chisholm, also known as ‘Chucky,’ was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital with four stab wounds to the right side of his abdomen and a chop wound on each of his wrists sometime around 9 am. He was then subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
Relatives yesterday said that they were waiting to speak with his doctors to learn whether Chisholm would be further transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, since they were told that he had sustained major stab injuries.
After the altercation, his assailant surrendered himself to the Whim Police Station, telling ranks there that he had just “chop some man.”
Chisholm’s mother, Marian Skeete, 63, explained that her son left home minutes before 8.30 am yesterday. However, she said moments later she saw persons running down the street. “When me see the crowd, me run and me son and this Rasta man lay down pon the ground fighting. And if you see blood from me son skin but like me son didn’t know he get bore but he get chop on he two hand,” Skeete explained.
She said after persons present broke up the fight, she questioned eyewitnesses about what led to the altercation. She noted that she was told that the two were having a regular conversation in the company of other persons when the assailant began to use some explicit words while talking to her son, which led to an argument and then the physical altercation.
Stabroek News was told that the assailant armed himself with a cutlass and dealt Chisholm several lashes and chops. How-ever, after persons would have snatched the cutlass from him, he then pulled two knives from his waist and stabbed Chisholm.
Villagers also claimed that the assailant was on Monday involved in a fight with a friend of Chisholm, who sustained minor chop wounds on one of his arms. That matter was not reported to the police, they said.
