Youths injured in gang fight
not cooperating with police
PHILIPSBURG--Police say one of the youths injured in Tuesday’s gang clash outside the St. Maarten Vocational Training School has refused medical attention from St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) and the other two refuse to say how they were injured.
All three were involved in what police say was a gang fight Tuesday morning involving students living on the Bush Road and students from the Sucker Garden area. The fight reportedly started when a group of young students exited a car with dark tinted windows brandishing machetes and attacked another group that was walking from school.
Police spokesman Inspector Ricardo Henson said Wednesday that the Detective Department had stated that injured youths had all refused to cooperate with detectives who were conducting the investigation.
Henson said questions regarding who had injured them and what had caused the fight had all been ignored by the three. Henson said this made it very difficult for detectives to carry out their investigation successfully.
Although the detectives had hit a brick wall in their investigation, Henson said they were determined to get to the bottom of the matter and would have to find alternate means of solving the case.
Meanwhile, police stood guard with several patrol cars in the South Reward area Wednesday, in anticipation of a second battle between the Sucker Garden and Bush Road gangs. However, school ended without incident, according to Henson.
