BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – KAREEM RICHARDS, the young man whom Steadroy 'Chalkie' Scott allegedly stabbed on Wednesday (Dec. 21), is said to have undergone a successful operation in Trinidad and Tobago.
Information reaching this publication indicates that after Richards was stabbed, he was taken to the JNF General Hospital but the medical practitioners there were unable to remove a sharp object from his body.
SKNVibes learned that the sharp object was part of the weapon that was broken and remained in Richards’ body when he was stabbed.
Information also indicates that after Richards could not have been helped at the local medical institution, family members quickly flew him to the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
According to Inspector Charles Smithen, Officer-in-Charge of the Criminal Investigations Department, Richards was stabbed at about 9:00 on Wednesday night on the Bay Road in Basseterre in the vicinity of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet.
Smithen told this media house that Scott was formerly arrested and charged for stabbing the young man and was taken before a City Magistrate who remanded him to Her Majesty’s Prison until his trial in the New Year.
Investigations conducted by this media house however revealed that Richards was engaged in some form of construction work in the vicinity of David Coury Co. Ltd. Hardware Store when an altercation ensued between he and Scott.
It is said that immediately after the stabbing incident, two of Richards’ co-workers, armed with hammers, attacked Scott who ran from the scene and sought refuge in the KFC outlet.
“He had a beer bottle in his hand and was daring the two men to enter KFC. Fortunately, two police officers in plain clothes were in KFC and stopped what might have been a bloodbath. I think one of them had called the station, because shortly after a bus turned up with some police officers and they took Scott to the Basseterre police Station,” one customer of KFC said under condition of anonymity.
