| …as rape suspect runs amokA rape suspect ran amok yesterday, shortly after 17.00 hrs at Matthews Ridge, North West District, stabbingPolice Sergeant Leonard La Rosea police sergeant to death and wounding two other ranks who were trying to arrest him.Police Sergeant 16934 Leonard La Rose, 52, was stabbed in the neck and was pronounced dead at the Matthew’s Ridge Hospital. Another rank, identified only as Schultz, was stabbed in the chest. A third policeman, identified only as Lewis, was wounded in the hand.The attacker, identified as Dennis Marks, was shot in the right leg. He was treated at the Matthew’s Ridge Hospital before being taken into custody.A police release stated that at about 17.30hrs yesterday, police ranks stationed at Matthews Ridge, NWD, went to arrest Dennis Marks who was wanted pending investigations into a report of alleged rape.“During efforts to arrest him, Dennis Marks attacked the ranks with a knife, stabbing Sergeant 16934 Linden La Rose to his neck and two other ranks to their chest and right hand, respectively. He was subsequently shot by a rank to his right foot.“Sergeant Linden La Rose was pronounced dead on arrival at the Matthews Ridge Hospital. The police rank who was stabbed to his chest has been admitted to hospital, while the other was treated and sent away. Dennis Marks was also treated and sent away and is in police custody.”Other reports out of Matthews Ridge indicate that the suspect was intoxicated at the time, and that there were reports that he was physically assaulting a woman at his home.Commenting on the tragedy last night, ‘F’ Division Commander, Senior Superintendant Ravindradat Budhram said that police ranks had “exercised a lot of restraint,” since the suspect was not carrying a firearm.Relatives of the slain policeman, who had resided at Wisroc, Linden, said that Sergeant La Rose was stationed in the interior since 1999. He had celebrated his birthday just two weeks ago.It was just last September that Police Constable Antonio Dawson, an Impact Base rank, was stabbed to death while trying to arrest a petty drug dealer, Frederick James,Cheap Jerseys, at the Houston Fishing Complex.In January 2014, Detective Corporal 14998 Silburn Elias, a father of four, of Buxton, East Coast Demerara, was shot dead after he went into a yard in Fourth Street, Alberttown, to recapture escaped prisoner Delon Abrams, and recover his colleague’s gun.And in November 2013, businessman Deryck Kanhai killed Police Lance Corporal 20293 Michael Forde, Constable 18053 Sherwayne Pantlitz, civilians Vanessa Vyphuis, and 75-year-old security guard Hugh Paul, before being slain in an almost three-hour gun battle in Middle Street. |
