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Aug 08, 2014 News
A route 48 minibus conductor was stabbed twice in the vicinity of the heart and once to his arm by three youths around 09:00 hrs yesterday at ‘B’ Field Sophia.
Up to press time, the critically wounded 34-year-old Shawn George of Lot 413 ‘A’ Field Sophia was undergoing emergency surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Melissa George, one of the injured man’s cousins, said that they were informed that the man was stabbed “inches away from his heart” and his condition was listed as critical. She claimed that when the family was allowed to see George, he could not move or speak.
The cousin further told this newspaper that on Wednesday, two youths entered the minibus her cousin works on but when they reached their destination, they refused to pay their bus fare.
The youths and the conductor reportedly got into a heated argument and after some time, the man got into the bus and it drove away, leaving the two “verbally abusive” youths standing on the roadway in ‘B’ Field, Sophia.
According to Melissa George, early yesterday morning one of the two youths approached the man at his home and threatened to injure him, forcing him to file a report at the Turkeyen Police Station.
“After he made the report, he went to the bus park to work and as he was going into ‘B’ Field, Sophia, with passengers, three boys blocked the road,” the cousin explained.
The youths, armed with a knife, cutlass and ice-pick reportedly attacked the man before escaping. The passengers were not injured.
This publication was told that one of the three youths who attacked George is in custody assisting with information.
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