A young Cuban motorcyclist identified on social media as Leonel Camacho was the victim of an attempted murder on the Punta Gorda Road, a remote area with little vehicle traffic in Santiago de Cuba.
According to reports obtained by local reporter Yosmany Mayeta on Facebook, the attack was carried out by someone known in the neighborhood who attempted to steal his motorcycle.
The victim's sister detailed that the attacker asked Leonel to take him to pick up a package, and while at the location, the young man sat on the motorcycle, and when he was distracted checking his phone, he was caught by surprise from behind.
The attacker "slashed a knife across her neck from side to side," the woman recounted.
Despite the severity of the attack, Leonel managed to escape and ask for help.
"Thanks to God, he was able to be sent running, and when he reached where there were people, they helped him," said the young woman, thanks to which he survived.
Leonel was immediately transferred to the Joaquín Castillo Duany Military Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, where he received medical care.
"Now he has a tremendous wound in his neck, and the aggressor's mother came to ask that he not be accused with the police," commented the sister.
According to the report, the mother of the aggressor –Jorge Luis Moncada, from the Santa Bárbara neighborhood– turned her son in to the authorities that same night.
After committing the attack, Moncada took the motorcycle to his house and turned himself in to the police.
Leonel's family, who is recovering in the hospital, demands that the full weight of the law be brought down upon him.
"Let him pay, because just as he did it to my brother, he can do it to other people," said the victim's sister.
"Daily, Santiago de Cuba experiences violent events, and the actions of the authorities are lacking," the family denounced, emphasizing that violence and wrongdoers are dominating the region while the authorities remain inactive.
The day before, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged the increase in violence, crime, and drug-related offenses on the island.
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