A machete wielding mentally challenged man chopped a police in the head. Fortunately the police got away with just a really bad cut. The incident happened this morning around 9:30 in Seine Bight Village. Residents called the police this morning because Zebedee Martir was flailing the machete around in the village. But when police got there they had to shoot him in the arm to subdue him. Here is the police account.
ACP Joseph Myvett - Head, NCIB
"Seine Bight and Placencia police responded to an incident of a male person making chopping motions at several villagers in Seine Bight village. As a result police encountered one Zebedee Martir, a mentally challenged patient who at the time was in possession of a machete. He was approached by police who tried to convince him to put down the machete and in the process he suddenly approached one of the officers and made a chopping motion which caused one of the officers to be injured one special constable Raphael Caliz who received one large chop wound to the back of his head. In the process police fired several warning shots which did not persuade him to drop the machete and as a result one additional shot was fired at him which caught him in the right forearm. As a result he was disarmed."
Police say Martir only got a flesh wound to the arm. As for special constable Caliz, fortunately it wasn’t a deep cut. He is recovering at the Southern Regional Hospital. Police say Martir was not known to be violent before this incident. While there may be a psychiatric evaluation in this case, Martir will be charged.
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