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Gunmen attack ice cream van

Sep 10, 2008 News


– driver almost blinded by glass fragments

An ice cream van driver had to seek medical treatment to remove fragments of glass from his eyes after one of two bandits opened fire during a brazen robbery at Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt, last weekend.
Garcia Mc Almont, of Golden Grove Village, East Coast Demerara, sustained injuries after the bullet from the bandit’s gun shattered a window of the ice cream van he had just parked after conducting business last Saturday. The robbery occurred at around 21:30 hours.
Police in a press release stated that Mc Almont and salesgirl Jennifer Jones had parked the ice cream truck GKK 6504 and were counting the day’s proceeds when the bandits struck.
The men held up Jones and relieved her of $96,000, discharging a round in the process.
Speaking to this newspaper yesterday, Mc Almont said that he had disembarked from the truck and was talking to a relative of his employer when he heard Jones calling out to him frantically.
“I see a man in the truck and he started to beat the girl (Jones). He was telling her, ‘pass de f…ing money’,” Mc Almont told this newspaper.
He said that as he was going to intervene he was confronted by one of the bandits who pointed a gun at him.
“He tell me, ‘don’t come or else I shoot you sc..t’,” Mc Almont related.
With that Mc Almont tried to back off and then a gunshot rang out.
The driver said that he immediately felt a burning in his eyes as fragments of a shattered window momentarily blinded him.
When he managed to open his eyes the bandits were already fleeing through a nearby alley.
“These men were youth men,” Mc Almont added.
The matter was reported and police have launched an investigation.
No one has been arrested so far.

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