'Do you want to die?': Injured London man regrets getting involved after witnessing property crime
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A London man says he’ll think twice about getting involved next time he sees a crime being committed. He told CTV News he ended up taking a hatchet to the head when he tried to stop someone suspected of smashing a glass door.
A London man says he’ll think twice about getting involved next time he sees a crime being committed.
He told CTV News he ended up taking a hatchet to the head when he tried to stop someone suspected of smashing a glass door.
“Am I going to get out of this? It was just happening all so fast,” recalled 29-year-old Damien Stubbs-Vilon, on what was going through his head during a violent confrontation.
It was a few minutes before midnight on Saturday when he was inside a Talbot Street business and a man on the sidewalk smashed the glass door with an object.
Stubbs-Vilon said he and two others decided to follow the man down the sidewalk and into an alleyway.
That’s where things went sideways. One of the people with Damien was struck first, then he was struck with what he later found out was a hatchet.
“I yelled at him and he turned back around and he pulled off his mask and he said ‘do you want to die?’ ” explained Stubbs-Vilon, still visibly shaken by the event several days later.
