“I had to jump in a trench to get away from he the first time,” said Jason Marshall, an 18-year-old East Ruimveldt youth who was stabbed seven times about the body.
Marshal, who lives at 429 East Ruimveldt, is currently a patient in Ward B2 at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). He was admitted to the hospital just after 9 pm Tuesday and is nursing several stab wounds about the body.
According to the young man, prior to the incident he was at a football match being played at a community centre in East Ruimveldt. Marshall said that he was arguing with another youth and his assailant was looking on.
“Me and another one of my age group was having a lil scuffle downstairs at the community centre. He (Marshall’s attacker) was standing on the step then he push he self in we story and he leave de game to go home,” Marshall explained.
The young man told Stabroek News that when he noticed his assailant leave he called his cousin because he “knew the other man went home to get something.” Marshal said that he left the football game just after 8.30 pm.
“I see he coming at me on a bicycle with a big kitchen knife in he hand so I run and jump in a nearby trench to get away from he,” the injured youth explained. “After I see he ride and gone somewhere else I get out and continued walking home. Next thing I know he come up behind me and all I feel is two stabs in me back.”
After the initial wounds, Marshall said, he collapsed to the ground and the man then dealt him several more stabs. It was while trying to block the knife thrust that he was wounded in the left arm.
Further, Marshall explained that after his attacker left he got up and began to run but didn’t get very far because he was dizzy.
“I just start to feel dizzy and I de feeling nuff blood coming out,” Marshall said.
The injured youth said that he made several attempts to get a taxi to transport him to the hospital but all of the drivers refused. A friend later discovered him, Marshall said, and it was he who managed to get a taxi.
Marshal was stabbed in his back, left arm and in the general area of his rib and stomach. When this newspaper visited him at the GPH he was said to be in stable condition.
Violence all over the country….when will it end??
SandHurst, It all can come to an end, How you ask. well educate our youth and provide job opportinities, A mind is a terriable thing to waste. Youth thinks that they have to earn respect thru Viloence .
It will all end when all of the citizens have migrated or are dead .
talk about good samaratians – and the taxi drivers refused to take him to the hospital.
Remember what happened to the taxi driver that took the guy that was shot to the hospital.
he was arrested.
Ooh poor guy! his part of the story, anyhow, he who fight and run away, lives to fight another day.
it is time young people find something constructive to do with their time and stop hurting each other.lets live as one and learn to sort out our differences.
What happen to the attacker,nothing said about him. Incomplete reporting SN.
SOME PEOPLE FIND IT SO DIFFICULT TO PUT THEMSELVES IN OTHER PEOPLE’S SHOES EVEN THOUGH THEY EXPECT US TO EMPATHIZE WITH THEM IN THEIR TIME OF NEED.
IF THOSE SAID TAXI DRIVERS’ VEHICLES WERE HAVING ENGINE TROUBLE, CHANCES ARE JASON WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE GUYS THEY WOULD HAVE ASKED TO GIVE THEM A “PUSH”.
WHY IS LIFE BECOMING SO TRIVIAL IN GUYANA WHILE HER CITIZENS OVERSEAS ARE CATCHING THEIR ROYAL TO ADVERTISE GUYANA IN A GOOD LIGHT?
I HOPE THAT JASON FULLY RECOVERS AND DO WHATEVER HE CAN TO NOT GO SEEKING REVENGE. ALSO, SINCE HE KNEW HIS ATTACKER “WENT TO GET SOMETHING”, HE SHOULD HAVE STARTED WALKING HOME EARLIER.
NEVERTHELESS, HIS ATTACKER HAD NO RIGHT TO STAB HIM.
GUYANESE, THE WORLD IS CHANGING AND SO SHOULD WE.
SHOW SOME LOVE.
Stan, just reading your well articulated response brings tears to my eyes.
I share your sentiments too on this issue; it’s just a crying shame how inhumane we have become. Wonder what it will take to change us.
LOVE is all it takes. LOVE; and it’s CHRISTMAS for petes sake…………..
Stan, I hear you loud and clear and I too feel your pain, but Guyanese have sat and have woven a tangled web that has bounded and tied us all up in our own individual worlds of confusion and selfishness.
The other day a taxi driver took a shot guy to the hospital and he ended up being arrested. I don’t knoe if he was involved or not but that sent a message to the other taxi drivers. People empathise from afar and sit on their hands because they never know what hell awaits them at the end of the line. This is what we have evolved to, this state no sensitivity.
Our young people thinks that the more violent they are the more fare or respect they are going to get. The one that goes to the extreme gets the most respect or fared the most. If one comes with a knife the other is going to get a gun, thats how it is. There is just a total lost of control and thats the reason for deaths and erosion of the system.
We need to start teaching our children about the sanctity of life, respect others and have more humanity. We have to be that example and let others follow.
I GUESS ALL OF THE TAXI DRIVERS WHO REFUSED TO TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL DIDN’T WANT BLOOD IN THEIR CARS, BUT ONE DAY MAYBE, JUST MAYBE IT WILL BE THEIR CHILD DEPERATELY NEEDING A RIDE …
What happened to the ambulance at the g/town hospital ? taxis are not equipped to transport a sick or wounded person , besides they need medical personnel to attend to them while on their way to the ER .
…… MINDLESSNESS is conducive to callousness !…..
very simple !…………………
I DO NOT CONDONE VIOLENCE, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ENDLESS ROBBERIES, SHOOTING, MURDERS & SO FORTH THAT’S TAKING PLACE TOWARDS TAXI DRIVERS? THESE ARE ALSO DECENT, HARD WORKING & HONEST HUMANS, WHO ARE TRYING TO MAKE AN HONEST LIVING. I DO NOT HEAR OF ANYONE SYMPATHYSING WITH THESE GUYS. MAYBE AT THE TIME THEY HAD A PROBLEM WITH THEIR CAR OR THEY WERE ON A CALL OTHERWISE COULD NOT HAVE STOPPED TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO THE INJURED YOUTH. ANYWAY HE SHOULD HAVE LEFT EARLIER.
Senseless , that guy that stabbed him was looking for trouble all along, wasn’t even his story and he stick his nose in it, real troublemaker. He should get a lickin when the police catch up with him.
Paw, you better don’t let some of them read about the lickin part, because they will jump on you..