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Businesswoman fights off gunmen to save car
(By Mondale Smith)
Businesswoman, Nirvona Boodhoo, 36, is nursing 15 sutures to her head after fighting off three gun-toting bandits to prevent them from stealing her car.
Businesswoman, Nirvona Boodhoo speaking with this newspaper yesterday.
Minutes after leaving her bar on Garnett Street, Newtown, she arrived at her 188 Phulwarie Street, Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, about 1:30hrs yesterday where she had what she dubbed a most frightening experience she will never forget.
The mother of two had just hosted a get together for her late husband’s death anniversary at her bar and then headed home. Though she normally would park her car in her yard she said she did not feel the urge to do so. The upshot was that she decided to park the car in front of the house.
“As I was coming out of the car I saw three strange men coming up the street towards me so I tried to go back in my car and one pulled out his gun.”
The widow could not recall what the men said to her but as fear gripped her she said she knew she had to do something as they rushed the car and grabbed her before she could close the door.
“I started to scream and they tell me to shut up but I resisted as two of them entered the car leaving me with one who had the gun to me.”
They took about $100,000 and three cell phones including a Samsung S5, a Blackberry and a Blu and a bunch of keys.
I don’t know what got into my head but when they ask for the keys I said no and when they tried to take it I just throw it in the yard over the locked gate.”
This move angered the men who were moved from pushing me to assaulting her to her head with one of the guns. “One lash me to my head with the gun and another one come up and say shoot she and I started to beg for my life. Then I hear my sister scream from upstairs and they escaped down the street.”
When the men disappeared from the scene, with blood streaming from her head and face she drove to the Sparendaam Police Station where she collected a medical to go to Georgetown Public Hospital.
“When I went in the Accident an Emergency Unit the experience was hell. I was there with blood running down my head and face and they put me to sit and tell me to wait on the doctor.”
Still fearful for her life after the harrowing ordeal and frustrated by the attitudes of the staff at the Georgetown Public Hospital Accident and Emergency Unit she opted to go to a private doctor at Woodlands. There she ended up with nine sutures in the head and six above my left eyes.
The woman said the police normally patrol in the area, one of which she saw minutes before her harrowing ordeal. “When I came in the street a patrol was actually on the road but they didn’t come in my street.
Speaking of the first time experience she said, “This crime situation is crazy; something needs to be done because I could have been dead if I didn’t think for myself on my husband’s one year death anniversary.”
She said that in her opinion, “The men really wanted my car badly and honestly I thought I was going to be killed…I have never been so scared in my life.”
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