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Bandits snatch $4M in hold-up at traffic light

Sep 01, 2011 News

A city businessman is singing praise to his Creator for sparing his life during a brazen robbery on Tuesday evening that saw a bullet narrowly missing his head.
The businessman was in a Honda CRV Sport Utility Vehicle with his nephew when the bandits attacked them at the junction of Conversation Tree and the Rupert Craig Highway.
The gunmen snatched $4M in an ordeal that lasted no more than a few minutes, around 18:20 hours.
“This thing happened in the wink of an eye,” said the businessman, who requested that his name be withheld.
The incident caused panic among other motorists, many of whom bumped into each other at the sound of the gunshots that were fired.
Recounting his ordeal, the businessman told Kaieteur News that he was sitting in the front passenger seat of his nephew’s vehicle with all the windows wound up. They stopped as required at the traffic signal and there were three vehicles ahead of them and two behind them.
The bandits had approached in another vehicle from the back of the queue.
The businessman said that as they were waiting for the traffic light to give them the go-ahead signal, he first noticed a man with a gun at the driver’s side of the vehicle.
“He pulled open the door and I saw him trying to pull out the keys. My nephew grabbed his hand and that is when I saw a gun. I looked around and there was another man at my side of the vehicle, he too had a gun,” the businessman recalled.
He said that he immediately lowered his body in a slouching position and that was when the first gunshot went off.
The bullet pierced the front seat of the vehicle before shattering the passenger-side glass window.
“If I was not lying low I would have been hit in the chest,” the businessman told this newspaper.
The men then grabbed the bag and fled without anyone challenging them.
The matter was reported to the police, but so far no one has been arrested.
The businessman said that this was the first time that he has had such an experience and he was so traumatized that he could not eat or drink for a while.

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