Call 911? Maybe not… Gunmen rip door apart, terrorize family during robbery

Nov 13, 2015 News

In an age when phones dominate, calling 911 might not always be the best way to report an emergency.
One man in Tucville, Georgetown, said he was on his phone calling 911 while looking at four armed men as they tried, for more than 20 minutes, to gain entry into his neighbour’s home a little after 04:00 hrs on Wednesday.
The man said he stayed on the phone even as the gunmen successfully ripped his neighbour, former Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hutson’s back door apart and shook on the grillwork until a part of it broke.
This reportedly transpired at Lot 27-912 Tucville where the former army official resides with his family. Yesterday, Roland Hutson, the son of Charles Hutson, said that he and his family were asleep when his wife, Taryn Hutson, heard a commotion in the yard and woke him.
“She heard a noise and when she peeped, she saw the four men at the back door. They jumped through the back fence by the alley way and come in the yard,” Hutson said.
He explained that just when his wife called out for him, he heard his father shouting in the bottom flat of the two-storey house.
“My mom and dad stay downstairs and me, my wife and three children live upstairs,” Hutson said, adding that when he ran downstairs and into the kitchen, the men had already opened the door.
“Two of them were pointing the gun at me while they were shaking on the grill to open it.”
The father of three said that at that point there was nothing he could have done, since the men were pointing two guns at him.
“I tell my mother and father to lock their bedroom door and when they (gunmen) come in, they tried to put me to lie down and when I refused, one of them took the gun and hit me in my head,” Hutson recalled.
He further revealed that in mere minutes, the men packed a television, a laptop computer and his cellular phone in their bag, including $100,000 and escaped after terrorizing his family.
They did not spare Hutson’s 15-year-old daughter. When she failed to follow their orders, one of the gunmen slapped her.
“They even tried to get my parents’ bedroom door open but they couldn’t,” the father of three related.
He added that after the men made good their escape, they too tried to call 911, but no one answered. According to Hutson, he even visited the East La Penitence Police Outpost but there was a padlock on the gate.
“I called and called but no one answered,” the Tucville resident stressed.
Kaieteur News understands that half hour before the Hutson family was robbed and terrorized, the men broke and entered another home in the neighbourhood.

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