Youth chopped on neck by assailant

A Greiggs man who was chopped about the neck by a known assailant says that sometimes when he is alone, he cries when he thinks about how he could have lost his life foolishly.

On Wednesday, Jason Daniel, speaking from outside the Male Surgical Ward of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) said that the chop wound to the right side of his neck measures 11.5 cm long and is 5 cm deep.{{more}}

“You seeing bone,” stressed Daniel who was wounded around 7 pm last Saturday August 13.

Reliving the incident, the injured man said that a man, who is known in the neighbourhood for his rowdy temperament, was speaking loudly in the street when he (Daniel) commented to someone, “he nah fed up keep noise?”

Daniel said the man heard him and used expletives at him and he in turn repeated the exact curse words to the man.

“He always making noise and argue for no reason. After we curse, he tell me I can’t come in the road and I say is government road and he run and point a cutlass in my face,” recalled Daniel.

Daniel said that the minor fracas was broken up and he was in his yard explaining to his aunt what transpired when the man ran into the yard and chopped him on his neck, probably angered by the fact that he, Daniel, had commented, “I ain’t fraid you.”

“He rush in the yard and chop me and run,” said Daniel who added that this is the first time that he has been involved in a physical altercation of this magnitude.

“I could have died. This make me feel real bad and as I think about it, I could lose my life. I cry when I think back how stupid it happen. I feel real sad. I just crying all the time,” said the unemployed man who is a past student of the North Union Secondary School, while stressing that he prides himself on staying out of trouble.

“I feel satisfied if he go jail for a long time. He always saying he go kill somebody. He always keeping noise,” Daniel said of his attacker.

The young man is hoping that when he leaves the MCMH that he finds a job. (LC)