part of his sight.

After last Friday's incident at KFC, Mr. Paynter revealed he had no medical insurance.

"This has left me with no job now and left me with bills and rent to pay and things like that there,'' he said.

"I don't know how I'm going to be able to pull this off. I can't leave here and be idle. I have rent coming up and things like that there. What am I going to do? I'm not insured.

"I have bills to pay. I have a child to support. My daughter is five years old. I haven't been much of a father the way I should be for my daughter as it is and now this makes it worse. I'm kind of at a loss for words. I don't know where I go from here.'' Mr. Paynter acknowledged that the attack was having a dramatic impact on his life.

"As far as work is concerned it's going to have to be reconstruction of some kind of skill that's going to require my talents as a one-eyed person,'' he said.

"I do carpentry and I need both eyes for that. Maybe I can learn how to do it with one eye. If someone could employ me with one eye to do carpentry, I would be grateful.'' Despite his immediate personal needs, Mr. Paynter said high on his list of priorities was that his assailant be brought to justice. And he is seeking the help of the public.

"Whomever was inside the establishment at that time if they could help to identify this young man and bring him before the justice system because this has left me with one eye,'' he said.

"I would appreciate anyone that saw two young men jet out of KFC around 4:30 p.m. on Friday to come forward and help us find out who he is because Police haven't had any breakthroughs yet of his whereabouts.

"They're asking me if I know his name or if I could get somebody to help find out his name. I don't want to do that because if I ask people to help find this guy, then they're only going to find him and beat him.

"I don't want all that to happen because that's not going to be justice for anybody.''