Firearm holder stalls 'mob justice'
A licensed firearm holder used his gun to defend himself after a group of men tried to attack him when they accused him of hitting a car.
Court reports are that on April 8 Lancelot Hibbert parked his Isuzu pickup truck on Sylvan Avenue and went to Tastee to purchase patties. When he was reversing from his parking spot a man stopped him and told him that he hit his Toyota Camry motor car. Hibbert denied the accusation. It is reported that the man proceeded to his vehicle where he retrieved a machete. The man's two friends, who also had knives, began approaching Hibbert's van.
One of the man's friends Patro Foster ran after the complainant's van and stuck his hand through the window and hit Hibbert in the head with his knife.
FIVE STITCHES
Hibbert said, in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday that he received five stitches as a result of the injury.
It is also reported that the man was about to attack Hibbert again when Hibbert pulled his firearm and fired in Foster's direction. Foster ran into the patty shop.
Hibbert fired two additional shots, disabling two tyres on the Camry motor car causing the other two men to run.
Foster was later taken from Tastee and arrested and charged for felonious wounding.
Foster pleaded guilty to the charge in court saying that he was assisting his friend.
Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey sentenced him to pay a fine of $10,000 or six months imprisonment at hard labour.
Firearm holder stalls 'mob justice'
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