Teacher robbed in school at gunpoint

Jun 14, 2014 News

A teacher attached to the West Ruimveldt Primary School was yesterday robbed just outside her classroom at gunpoint by two bandits, one of whom was armed with a knife, The robbery occurred in the presence of some of her pupils

The classroom where the robbery took place with the fence in the background.

just after classes were over for the day.
Speaking with Kaieteur News the distraught teacher, Miss Shevon Brewster related a series of events leading up to her terrifying experience.
According to Ms Brewster she dismissed classes around 15:00 hours, but some of her class were not finished writing their work. They stayed back to finish and copy their home work.
“This guy came to my door and said ‘good afternoon miss. I always admire you.’ I asked if he came for somebody and he said no and walked away. He then came back to the class and said that he came to collect Junior and I said we don’t have any Junior here.
“He asked me how I know that and I said that I am the class teacher and I have no Junior here. He sucked his teeth and left.”
The teacher said that the man, whom she described as short, came back again to the classroom, passed and went to the back of the building with a taller person. “So I peeped out to see what they were doing and I saw them looking at the fence. I went back in the class to hurry the children up. That is when the short one scrambled me with a knife and asked me where my bag is? I said I don’t have any bag and the taller guy pulled a gun and put it to my head.”
Brewster said that after “he put the gun to my head, he turned to his friend who was holding me and said bore she sk..t and take off the chain off her neck. He fired a bore and I pull away. When he fired the bore my phone fell out my hand and he bent over to pick it up and I start running.
“He then ran behind me saying give me the chain, so I burst the chain and threw it to him.”
She said that the two thieves went back to the class and asked the children, “Where is miss bag?” The children showed where it was in the cupboard and they took it. The purse contained her driver’s licence, her ID card and bank card. “I had US$100 and $10 000 along with other documents.”
Brewster said that during the time of the robbery she had about a dozen children aged between seven and eight years. They witnessed the entire traumatic ordeal.
“This morning when I came to work some parents came and said that they would not be able to bring their children to school because they were still traumatized especially those that were in front that saw when the gun was placed to my head.”
The teacher explained that the short robber escaped through a hole in the fence, while the taller one scaled the fence but in the process lost one side of his boots and his pants. He had become entangled in the barbed wire at the top of the fence. It tore off his pants.
The man fled the scene in his trunks. The police have in possession his boot and torn pants.
She described the men as being between 19 and 23. The police came and took a statement and then questioned the children, took pictures of the fence and told her that they were following up the investigation.
The teacher said that even though the school has a guard she is “scared to go back to the classroom because she is lonely and the back there is dangerous.”
Brewster said that a few years ago a parent came into the school and took a teacher’s bag.
A parent has since provided the identity of one of the bandits to the police. He said that he had actually confronted the man after the robbery and had demanded that the man return the teacher’s property.
He said that the fact that this has not been done is disrespectful.

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