Four injured in two fights
It was a busy weekend at the K.H.M.H. emergency room as four persons were hospitalised with stab wounds that occurred in two separate incidents on Friday night and early Saturday morning. In the first, sixteen year old Christen Usher and thirty year old Henry Flowers were involved in an altercation around ten and by the time it was all over both fighters had to be rushed to the hospital with multiple injuries to their face and body.
Four and a half hours later, two more young men would be taken to the K.H.M.H. Twenty-six year old Tyrone Broaster and thirty-two year old Michael Heusner suffered from stab wounds to the lower back and right lower rib cage respectively. All four have since been treated and released. Today, police press officer G. Michael Reid says investigations reveal that the men were both perpetrators and victims.
G. Michael Reid, Police press officer
“In both of these instances where these four individuals received stab wounds, it appears that they inflicted wounds to each other. There were two separate incidents where there was an altercation between people and they inflicted stab wounds to each other so those cases are pretty much open and shut in that the police know who is responsible.”
But the Broaster family is disputing the police report. According to Grace Flowers, her son Tyrone was inside a club on Newtown Barracks when someone came and told him that a group of his
friends were fighting outside the establishment. According to Flowers, Tyrone tried to separate the brawlers, but was stabbed in the process.
This morning, Heusner, who is a taxi driver, appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where he was arraigned on charges of attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm. Heusner reportedly complained to the court that he wanted to supply the police with a statement but that no one would listen to him. Flowers then cautioned Heusner to calm down and hold his temper and then said that she would instruct authorities to record his statement. Following his court appearance, Heusner was remanded to Hattieville prison until May sixteenth.
