A University of Guyana Economics lecturer and his son, who is a doctor at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), are currently patients at the institution after they were stabbed with a knife by a robber at their Bel Air home in the wee hours of yesterday.
The fifty-six-year-old lecturer, Mootoovereen Chinatombi is nursing a stab wound to his stomach while his son, Dr. Nicholas Chinatombi is said to be in a more serious condition as he sustained two stab wounds to the left side of his abdomen and one to his stomach. Both men are listed in stable condition.
The lecturer’s son, Andrew told Stabroek News “I went to bed about 12:45 am and woke up when I heard my father groan in pain. I ran out into the hallway and saw this man had a knife in my father’s stomach”.
He added that while he saw the robber, the man did not see him. As such, he went for his older brother, Nicholas. The doctor still drowsy from sleep immediately dived into the intruder knocking him away from his father. During the scuffle Nicholas was stabbed three times.
At the time Andrew said that all he could think of was his grandmother and mother behind him and he tried his best to shield them. His mother then told the robber to take whatever he wanted. Andrew noted at this point that there was cash that had been left out on the counter earlier in the day, somewhere from $7,000 to $10,000. The robber in response told her it wasn’t enough though he took it. According to Andrew, it was then the robber looked up and realized how many persons he was surrounded by and asked Andrew to open the front door for him to leave.
A nearby resident who had heard screams coming from his mother while the robber was there had meanwhile called the police. Andrew said that the police arrived three minutes after the man escaped. Paramedics arrived seven to ten minutes later.
Up until the arrival of the emergency services, the teen recalled that his brother despite being severely injured tried to stop his father’s wound from bleeding.
“He (Nicholas) bled on the couch, the wall and the chair. While he was lying on the ground, he told me to get a t-shirt so that he could apply pressure to his wounds. Then he asked for his phone to call his colleague at the hospital so that they could prepare for him and my father but while talking his hand was going limp because he was losing so much blood”, Andrew said.
Once the men were taken to the hospital, they were taken into surgery. Nicholas is said to have suffered bruises to his kidney as well as abdominal bleeding.
The intruder was said to have broken and climbed through a high window in the kitchen. Owing to its height, the window was not grilled like the rest of the windows around the house.
The robber is still at large
