Ak­ile Si­mon

Chaos broke out at San­gre Grande Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day, when mem­bers of a gang stormed the fa­cil­i­ty and re­port­ed­ly at­tacked a pa­tient at the ca­su­al­ty de­part­ment. The in­ci­dent hap­pened mo­ments af­ter an op­pos­ing gang went on a ram­page at Quash Trace Ex­ten­sion, set­ting sev­er­al homes afire. Pa­tients, as well as doc­tors and nurs­es, had to scam­per for safe­ty, as ap­prox­i­mate­ly sev­en men and one woman stormed the fa­cil­i­ty and at­tacked a 24-year-old man. At the time of the in­ci­dent, the pa­tient who is now un­der po­lice guard was be­ing treat­ed for in­juries he sus­tained dur­ing the fra­cas at Quash Trace Ex­ten­sion. The man, who was stabbed about the neck, back and hands, was re­port­ed­ly iden­ti­fied as one of the sus­pects in­volved in the in­ci­dent at Quash Trace.

Po­lice of­fi­cers rushed to the med­ical fa­cil­i­ty to quell the dis­tur­bance. By the time of­fi­cers ar­rived, the ma­jor­i­ty of trou­ble-mak­ers had fled. Of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion said the in­ci­dent stemmed from a feud be­tween mem­bers of two gangs, known as "The Gaza" and "The Gul­ly," in the San­gre Grande dis­trict. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, around 12.30 am, mem­bers of one of the gangs went to Quash Trace and be­gan hurl­ing Molo­tov cock­tails at the homes of sev­er­al res­i­dents. The gang was al­so ac­cused of van­dal­is­ing a ve­hi­cle in the area. The in­ci­dent, po­lice said, stemmed from an ear­li­er ar­gu­ment.

A house be­long­ing to Kevin Mo­hammed, po­lice said, was de­stroyed by fire dur­ing the melee, while Mo­hammed was seek­ing med­ical at­ten­tion at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal. He was chopped and "planassed." While Mo­hammed was at the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion mak­ing a re­port about the fire to his home, po­lice re­ceived a re­port that a group of men pushed down staff mem­bers at the hos­pi­tal and at­tacked a pa­tient. Po­lice said boul­ders and oth­er ob­jects were thrown at op­pos­ing gang mem­bers and sev­er­al peo­ple were "planassed," while three peo­ple were chopped in the ear­li­er in­ci­dent. A team of of­fi­cers from the East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and CID, head­ed by Sgt Bev­er­ly Paul and PC Os­una, vis­it­ed the scene. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.