WESTERN BUREAU:
A 25-YEAR-OLD man, accused of hacking a teenager to death, was chased and chopped by citizens in the resort town of Negril on Tuesday afternoon.
Robert Lewis, of Whitehall Housing Scheme in Westmoreland, has been admitted to the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital under police guard and is expected to be charged with the murder of 17-year-old Dwight Brown.
The Constabulary Communication Network reports that Brown and Lewis were involved in a fight over a woman at the bus park in Negril at about 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday. It is alleged that Lewis left the park and returned shortly after with a machete, which he used to inflict wounds to Brown's body.
Brown sustained injuries to his head and various parts of his body. He was rushed to the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital and was later transferred to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) where he succumbed to his injuries at about 2:30 a.m. yesterday.
Citizens, who witnessed the incident, chased Lewis and began chopping him all over his body. He was later taken to the hospital where he was admitted in a stable condition.
Brown's murder is the third recorded in the parish since the start of the year.
