Man detained after Valencia bar chopping

Ralph Ban­warie

A 38-year-old man is ward­ed at Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal af­ter he was chopped sev­er­al times about the head dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion at a bar in Va­len­cia.

The vic­tim, Kern Lewis, was re­port­ed­ly in­volved in an ar­gu­ment with a sus­pect at a bar along the East­ern Main Road, Va­len­cia.

The sus­pect al­leged­ly left the bar af­ter the al­ter­ca­tion, re­turned with a cut­lass and chopped Lewis sev­er­al times about the head.

Lewis fell to the ground bleed­ing pro­fuse­ly.

Of­fi­cers from the near­by Va­len­cia Po­lice Post re­spond­ed, and Lewis was tak­en to Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal by an Emer­gency Health Ser­vices am­bu­lance.

He re­mains ward­ed in se­ri­ous but sta­ble con­di­tion.

The sus­pect has since been de­tained at the Va­len­cia Po­lice Post and is be­ing ques­tioned by po­lice.