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Bandits strike in Laing Avenue

Mar 31, 2016 News

With police patrols in the city distracted by the fatal shooting in Albouystown, two armed bandits took advantage to terrorize a Laing Avenue household on Tuesday night.
The men held a gun to the head of a 14-year-old boy whose foot was in a cast, and forced a visitor to lie face down on the ground as they relieved him of his valuables.
The bandits timed their act to perfection as they managed to escape mere minutes before a police -mobile patrol passed the location.
Kaieteur News understands that Faye Daniels, who operates a food stall in the city, had left her 18-year-old daughter and her 14-year-old son at home to tend to her business.
At the time her daughter’s boyfriend was visiting. He bore the brunt of the attack.
Daniels’ daughter recalled that they were sitting on the patio in front of their house when her boyfriend got up to leave.
She said that she accompanied him to the gate and while there she observed two men, one short and the other tall, approaching from a nearby alleyway.
The men walked past but then suddenly turned and with their guns drawn, they ran towards the teenager and her boyfriend.
Daniels’ daughter said that she ran back into the house, leaving her boyfriend to the mercy of the two bandits.
Her brother who has a broken foot, tried desperately to flee also but one of the gunmen pointed his gun at him and ordered him to remain where he was.
Her boyfriend was ordered to lie face down by one of the bandits who demanded whatever valuables he had.
“They asked my boyfriend if he had on any jewellery and he didn’t answer…Then one of them feel his neck to see if he had on a chain, then he push he hand in his pocket and took out his cell phone and $4000,” the teenager recalled.
All the while she was peering through a crease in the wall, hoping desperately that the men would not enter the house to confront her.
But the men suddenly fled the scene through the same alleyway from which they had arrived.
“Shortly after a police patrol passed and we call them and tell them about the robbery, but they ain’t go after the men,” the young woman told this newspaper.
She said that she was taken to the Ruimveldt Police Station where she made a report but no one there took a statement from her; instead they told her to return the following morning.
Tuesday night’s robbery brought back shocking memories for Faye Daniels, who told this newspaper that it was the second time that the family has had such an experience.
“We got robbed in 2011 and now again…Like this thing won’t done,” Daniels lamented.
Although her children were traumatized by the ordeal, she feels lucky that she was not at home, since she too might have been targeted by the bandits.
Only recently the police had boasted a reduction in serious crimes and it is hoped that recent criminal events are not a sign that it is on the increase.

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