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Bandits strike at La Parfaite Harmonie…Businesswoman, staff beaten; pensioner shot, during separate robberies
A businesswoman and two of her staffers were beaten and robbed at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) early Tuesday evening, while a pensioner was minutes later gun-butted and shot, during separate
The shop that was robbed.
robberies in the village.
The first robbery occurred at a supermarket located at 4881 La Parfaite Harmonie, where the bandits escaped with three phones, wedding rings and the day’s sales, while the second attack occurred at the home of a pensioner, Winston Forrester. He lost a motorcycle.
In both robberies, the victims were attacked by two gunmen. Police sources say that investigators are unclear if the gunmen are the same in both attacks.
The Proprietor of NV Minimart, who asked for her name to be withheld, said that around 19:00 hrs on Tuesday, they started experiencing load shedding (in the village) so she as well as staffers started making preparations to close a little early.
“One of my staff went upstairs to put the books on the landing and when she was coming down back, one of the guys apprehended her and she started to scream,” the businesswoman recounted.
She added that when she heard the screaming, she peeped and saw an armed man walking towards her. He struck both her and her staffer to the head before collecting the keys to the supermarket and her residence. She operates her business in the lower flat of her home.
The woman recalled that one of the bandits dragged her to the back of her business place and told her that, “I want to kill somebody tonight and I’m willing to kill somebody.”
Winston Forrester displays his injuries.
She said that at first, the armed bandits thought that she was a staffer and focused more on the female worker.
“They were saying that they wanted to go upstairs while they were hitting us, and I had to tell them that I gun do what they want, and I open the door (downstairs) but they wanted to go upstairs. While walking up the step, he told me to bend, but I refuse, because I know my neighbours would look, so I walk up,” she said.
She added that when she reached to her door, she tried to delay the gunman while using the wrong key to open the door. By then, the armed man figured what she was up to and questioned if she was playing with him. She eventually opened the door.
“When I walked in, he walked in behind me and the neighbours see and started screaming and he panicked and walk out back, and I closed the door from inside and press the alarm,” the businesswoman said.
She then ran to her window and started shouting for “thief.” By then, the two men had escaped.
Meanwhile, pensioner Winston Forrester had just arrived home around 19:10 hrs on Tuesday when two bandits pounced on him. He was shot to the left shoulder and was beaten to the head by the men.
“I parked my bike in front the door and I locked it, and next thing I hear footsteps. When I look around, I see two men behind me and one of them said, ‘pass the f…ing keys,” Forrester recalled.
He noted that the men did not give him a chance to respond. “They beat me in my head and then they shoot me and beat me again. Then they took my bike.”
The men were not masked and according to Forrester, appeared to be in their mid 20s.
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