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Gunmen shoot, rob guest, hijack car
Cecil Semple
What started out as a casual evening gathering in memory of a loved one turned into an armed robbery that left one man wounded.
Around 21:10 hours last evening Cecil Semple and his friend Cecil Carter were attacked by gunmen who made off with Carter’s car.
According to Semple, yesterday marked forty days since his son’s death and as such there was a gathering at his Mandela Avenue home.
Semple said prior to the robbery the rest of his friends had left, leaving only himself and Carter at the location.
He said he went to his daughter’s aid in the upper flat of his two storey house since she was encountering some trouble with a tap.
“When I was about to come back downstairs, I saw two men standing in my yard with guns and my friend lying on the ground,” Semple said.
He said he nevertheless went into the yard where his friend was and he too was ordered to lie on the ground but he bluntly refused. “I just tell them do what de hell they want do…I say me aint able no mo. I just bury me son and I aint able with this stupidness,” Semple said.
Semple said the men then discharged two shots, one to the ground and another in the air. One of the shots struck Carter in the right arm and the men then ran to the wounded man, took his car keys from him and fled in the vehicle which was parked on the parapet.
The men also escaped with a small quantity of cash which Carter had in his pocket. Carter was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he was treated.
Semple told Kaieteur News that he is at his wits end with the police’ response to the ill luck he has been facing in recent months.
He related that this is the fourth time that he has been robbed in the past four months.
On October 17 last, Semple’s son, Ansel Semple who was a member of the Guyana Defence Force was killed in a hit and run accident.
That same night while Semple was at the hospital with his son, thieves broke into his home.
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