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invade & attack youth in Church. |
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NORWOOD, St James, Jamaica - All hell broke loose during
Sunday's worship service at the Paradise United Church of
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands when three men brandishing
knives and machetes invaded the church and inflicted several
wounds to a 17-year-old student in the congregation, and his
father who attempted to help him.
Yesterday, the police theorised that the injured teen was
attacked in retaliation for his alleged involvement in the
shooting of a man in the tough Norwood community Saturday
night.
"It is alleged that the man who was stabbed was a part of a
group that shot a man in his stomach in Norwood Square the
night before, so the group went for him in retaliation,"
commander of the St James Police Division, Superintendent
Steve McGregor, told the Observer yesterday.
According to Corporal Ulette Lewis Green, the Constabulary
Communication Network liaison officer for St James, the
church choir was singing when three men armed with ratchet
knives and a short machete, popularly referred to on the
streets as "Cuban", attacked the student, chopping and
stabbing him several times.
The teen's father, who is a member of the church choir, went
to the assistance of his son and was also hurt during the
fracas.
Members of the community were yesterday tightlipped about
the incident. However, an Observer source said that the
brazen attack shocked worshippers, many of whom screamed as
they scampered for safety.
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After the attack, both injured men were taken to the
Cornwall Regional Hospital where the father was treated and
sent home and his son admitted in serious condition.
When the Observer contacted the regional headquarters of the
church yesterday, a high ranking female member, who declined
to be identified by name, condemned the incident.
"Everybody is very distraught about it. Nothing like that
ever happen before. Every day something new is happening and
we are very frightened, really very frightened," she
lamented. "We have to go pray to God. Everybody has to get
down and pray to God, hoping it would never happen again. We
are very frightened about it. We are very disturbed about
the incident, very disturbed. It is the talk of the town.
Everybody is frightened. It is in the church. We know things
happen outside and around, but somebody going into the
church to do something like that - we are perturbed. We are
perturbed."
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