Assailant shot after beating woman
Around the same time Patrick Jones was investigating the report of that dead body, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was responding to a call about a violent incident not far away. In this case, while the motive may be cloudy, there is no mystery over who was responsible.
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
The police wasted no time in collecting whatever evidence they found at the home of Doctor Hugh Sanchez at number 115 Cemetery Road. The Doctor’s wife, Carla Sanchez, received several cut wounds to her face after a neighbour’s son, identified as twenty-two year old Leo Grant, broke into the home and attacked her. The attacker’s distraught father, Charles Grant, says when he heard Sanchez’s screams he knew something was terribly wrong, but never imagined that it was his son committing the crime.
Charles Grant, Father of Leo Grant
“I was sitting in the living room listening to the TV. But when I listen I hear this rumbling like somebody was struggling. So when I hear the lady scream, I know something wrong. When I went outside I see the crowd of fellows from over the other side that work on the hardware place, upstairs there (Sanchez’s house). So I come back inside now, but by the time I come back inside I hear one shot. When I hear the shot I get frighten more and I gone pick up my tennis and then I hear the gate open. The fellow run right through here and gone through here and over the fence and gone. I ask the neighbours, you see ever see anybody. He said he jump over the fence and he went that way.”
Grant says it was not until he went over to the Sanchez’s house that he was told it was his son who attacked her.
Jacqueline Woods
“Charles why you believe your son did it?”
Charles Grant
“Because Miss Sanchez must get tired ah we. He went to her this morning for something to eat and she refused to give we. That’s why it musta happened. Because everyday that lady give we food, everyday. Any person pass, she noh turn nobody down, no matter who you is. Miss Sanchez please give me something to eat, the lady go upstairs, and she get a little sandwich and give the person.”
Jacqueline Woods
“Do you believe Leo was troubled?”
Charles Grant
“Leo troubled is because he put things in his mind and he takes drugs and he get all kinda thing wrong with him. So I get fraid of him, because all night I noh sleep. I get up three times last night and I my wife seh, weh wrong with you. I tell her I can’t sleep. I get up early this morning, my wife give me one of her pressure pills because my head hurt me all morning.”
The police later apprehended Leo who was shot in his stomach by someone in the neighbourhood in an effort to catch him. Grant says he is terribly sorry for what his son did and he hopes the authorities deal with him accordingly.
Charles Grant
“All the beggars that pass on the street the lady help; nobody she turn down. I don’t know how he could have the mind to hurt that lady. Maybe he went to her this morning for something to eat and the lady refused to feed him, cause he’s young and strong, he only twenty-two.”
Jacqueline Woods reporting for News 5.
Sanchez, who sustained facial contusions and bruises, remains hospitalised in stable condition. Leo Grant has undergone surgery and is listed in critical, but stable condition. The man who fired the shot Grant was twenty-seven year old Kareem Espat, who was working at a nearby location when he heard the screams coming from the Sanchez house. The shot was fired from Espat’s licensed nine millimetre pistol.
