He was attacked and chopped on Friday morning, January 20 just outside the JN Bank on Harbour Street, near the Baywest plaza where he ply his newspaper vending trade for well over two decades.

In his early days Lunch kept goal for Seba United, and also played master league football mostly as a goalkeeper. Many of his football fans and people who buy newspaper from him where seen converged on the crime scene, as evidence of blood was seen splattered on the ground where the incident occurred.

