Teen claims he was chopped while sheltering from rain

A sixteen-year-old boy underwent surgery today for chop wounds to his head, inflicted early this morning. The youth told police he had left his grandmother’s house around two a.m. and was on his way to his own home on West Collet Canal when it began to rain and he ducked into a yard to shelter. However, he claims a man came out of one of the houses and asked him what he was doing there and then attacked him with a machete. Police say they are waiting for the boy to recover from his injuries to try and get a positive identification of the assailant because while they know the location of the yard, there are three houses on the property. Police also intend to investigate the boy’s story to see if he was indeed just avoiding the rain or was doing something suspicious in the yard.