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Overseas visitor’s Christmas season spoilt by armed bandits
-narrowly evades bullet intended for his head
When Rupert Angus planned his Christmas visit back home to Guyana to see his
Rupert Angus points to the hole in the wall left by the bullet that was intended for him.
mother, the last thing on his mind was an encounter with gunmen.
But it happened. He lost his precious gold and diamond chain worth $1.5M, dodged a bullet intended for his head, and if that was not enough, he has received little or no satisfaction from the people he turned to for help-the police.
Angus has since returned to his overseas domicile and although he managed to identify one of the perpetrators to the police, he is resigned to the fact that nothing positive will come out of the entire episode.
Angus was chilling out on the patio of his mother’s Hardina Street apartment on Christmas night when he noticed two suspicious youths ride past on bicycles but suddenly stopped a short distance away.
Thinking quickly, Angus got up and immediately tried to go inside and close the door.
“I recognized that they were up to something, so I jumped up and went inside and slammed the door.”
But one of the young men, who turned out to be bandits, managed to put his foot and prevented the door from closing.
The bandit, who was carrying a handgun grabbed Angus who was wearing his gold chain and a scuffle ensued.
During the scuffle, Angus’ chain burst and fell on the floor and the other bandit who was standing by the door picked it up.
The one who was engaging Angus discharged a round just as the victim pushed him off and the bullet which was definitely intended for the overseas-based Guyanese pierced a wooden wall.
The bandits seemed only interested in Angus and his chain although they did demand cash and other valuables.
They did not bother to trouble Angus’s elderly mother who along with his brother was also in the apartment.
“While he (bandit) was grabbing the chain, I held on to it and he was pointing the gun in my face, it was my mother who told me to let it go. Same time he fired the shot,” Angus recalled.
Apart from the chain, the men also took Angus’ US$700 cellular phone before fleeing the apartment and headed east up Norton street.
Angus said that he reported the matter to the police at the Brickdam Police Station and was initially told that his matter was one for the Alberttown Police Station.
It was only after he insisted that his report was taken by a rank at Brickdam.
“I went to the Brickdam Police Station and they start giving me the runaround. It’s like you’re talking to one person and they pushing you off to somebody else,” Angus told this newspaper.
The following day he met with a detective at the Brickdam Police Station where he identified one of the bandits from photographs shown to him.
Angus said that this is the first time he has experienced something like this and it makes him feel reluctant to ever come back to Guyana.
“I don’t want to come back in this place, seriously. I just want to get on a flight and head out,” he said.
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