Dancehall.Mobi special update – popular 1980s dancehall deejay Major Mackerel (real name – Garfield Dixon) was reportedly hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York earlier today, after he was attacked by a jealous husband wielding a two-foot samurai sword. Mackerel, who has lived in the U.S. since the 1990s, was reportedly slashed across the head and suffered a severe cut on his left palm during an altercation outside his home in East Flatbush, New York some time this morning.

According to police reports, Mackerel was on his way home from a trip to the store, when he was ambushed by his neighbor Oscar Joseph (who also happens to be Jamaican). Joseph reportedly claimed that Mackerel had been flirting with and harassing his wife.

Just minutes after the incident, Joseph was arrested, still clutching the bloody sword. He was charged with assault with intent to cause a serious injury, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. Mackerel has reportedly denied harassing the man’s wife, but admitted that a few of his friends may have whistled or called to her earlier in the year.

A wounded Major Mackerel returns to his East Flatbush home from the hospital

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