The slain bodies of 40 year-old Samuel "Pam Pam" or "Logie" Julien of Mt Reuil, St Patrick and 35 year-old Leslie Pascall of Snell Hall, St Patrick will both be laid to rest next week Monday side by side.
The families of both men who were brutally chopped to death by a mentally disturbed man last week Thursday are still trying to come to terms with the horrifying loss of their loved ones.
Although in grief, the family members have laid the murder blame solely at the feet of the officers attached to the Sauteurs Police Station.
In speaking to GRENADA TODAY, the family members openly stated that if the policemen had responded to two reports made earlier that day the lives of both men would not have ended in the way it did.
One such person is Percy Flemming, who believed that he is lucky to be alive since he was the first resident of the area to be attacked by the deranged man. Flemming received seven stitches from a blow administered by Eric early that morning.
The joiner told this newspaper that he made two reports to the Sauteurs Police Station and advised them that they should move speedily to apprehend the mentally disturbed man identified as Eric before he killed someone.
He said that at approximately 6:45 a.m. he and his cousin went to the garden to cut some overhanging branches when Eric appeared and began cussing them and asking why they cutting his bush.
According to Flemming, who recently returned home from living in Trinidad and Tobago, he did not know the young man had a mental problem. He said that moments later, Eric re-appeared and asked him for use of the cutlass to cut a stick.
He spoke of seeing the man sharpening the end of the object and thought that he was doing it in order to protect himself against the dogs that were barking at him.
But to Flemming’s surprise, the man used the stick to deliver a massive blow to the back of the head of the unsuspecting tradesman. After hitting Flemming, Eric was heard saying: "Ah tell you not to cut me so and so wood".
The wounded man said he fell some 30- 40 ft below the road and into the river without badly damaging himself. He said that Eric apparently thought that he had died and immediately left the scene. Flemming managed to get up, and with blood pouring all over him, went in search of medical attention.
He said that he received seven stitches from the blow and decided to visit the Sauteurs Police Station to make a formal report. He reportedly told the police: "All you need to pick up that fellah before he kill somebody before the end of the day".
Flemming stated that he did not press charges against Eric since he learnt that his attacker was mentally disturbed. He said that he was not satisfied with the reaction of the first officers and visited the station again where he spoke to someone identified as Officer #377.
This police officer, he said rather than taking action, asked him how did Eric get the cutlass from him, and who told him the man was mad.
According to Flemming, he again stressed to the police the need for them to pick up Eric but this was not done since the police claimed that no vehicle was available.
The St. Patrick’s resident maintains that these tragic loss of lives could have been speared if the police officers had performed their duties.
GRENADA TODAY also met with Annes Pascall, mother of Leslie, and Agnes "Barnette" Julien and Boysie Best "Pam Pam"/"Logie" parents of two of the other persons hacked to death by Eric.
Both expressed how disappointed and angry they were with the officers whom they believed allowed the murders to take place through negligence.
Reports indicate that "Pam Pam" was killed while at work on his farm while Pascall was killed while returning home.
According to a report from the Public Relations Department of the Royal Grenada Police Force, the body of "Pam Pam" was discovered lying on the ground with his head chopped in several places covered with banana leaves.
Officers attached to the Sauteurs Police Station who visited the scene were called again hours later after received reports of another chopping incident in a nearby village.
The report said the officers rushed to the scene where they observed the body of Pascall, a Labourer lying on the Snell Hall Public Road with chop wounds to his head, face and hands and appeared to be dead.
Two medical doctors were summoned to the scene and after examining the bodies, pronounced them dead. The bodies were taken away by La Qua & Sons Funeral Agency. However within hours after the double murders, the alleged perpetrator was shot to death by RGPF officers.
The police report said that "Eric" who resided in Mt Fendue, St Patrick received two bullet wounds to the upper part of his body after failing to adhere to the officers orders to release a cutlass he was brandishing in an aggressive manner as he approached them.
Shortly before being shot Eric was struck by a passing car, fell to the ground still holding onto the cutlass. Eric was rushed to the Princess Alice Hospital, where he was examined and pronounced dead by a doctor. Eric's madness is being alluded to be associated with witch-craft.
Villagers said that Eric spent a number of years in prison for administering several chops to his then girlfriend from the sister isle of Carriacou. Residents in the area say that the mother of the victim openly stated that she will not leave him so.
The mother was seen a few weeks ago in St Patrick, and when she saw Eric indicated, "he ain’t dead yet"!
Meanwhile Flemming has issued a warning to the police to take action since another mad man is on the loose in the area and threatening to take the lives of the elders in the Adventist Church in St. Patrick’s.
