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Suspects captured after vicious robbery
Injured Shelly Lake
Quick action by the police yesterday helped apprehend three suspects who had robbed and chopped a woman at her Norton Street, Lodge, home just after noon.
Injured in the robbery was Shelly Lake. She received a large laceration to the forehead from one of the bandits.
The police in a press release stated yesterday that they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 12:20hrs at Norton Street, Georgetown. According to the release miner, Abdool Sattaur, 25, and Patricia Edwards, 19, were attacked and robbed by three men armed with a firearm, a cutlass and an ice-pick.
The police stated that it was due to quick response by the police after receiving the report that three suspects were arrested in the Le Repentir Cemetery.
Speaking with Kaieteur News, yesterday, Lake said that she, her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren were sitting inside their Norton Street, Lodge home when they heard someone knocking.
The woman said that her daughter, Patricia Edwards, got up and went to see who it was at the door.
Lake said that seconds after her daughter opened the door she heard a strange noise. “I hear she saying we ain’t got nothing and it was like she was trying to close back the door,” Lake said.
The woman said that she stood up and that is when she saw the three men in the house. They were armed with a handgun, cutlass and an ice pick.
The woman said one of the bandits, who was a Rastafarian, pulled her daughter’s gold chain from her neck.
She said that she started pleading with the men to leave since the family did not have anything.
“I tell them go away cause we ain’t got nothing and he run up in front me and said he want all de gold and money,” Lake said.
The woman said that she started putting up a resistance and was dealt a lash to her face. “After I get the lash I say these people serious,” the woman said.
Kaieteur News was told that the woman’s three-year-old granddaughter even grabbed onto the bandits foot.
“Me li’l granddaughter grab on to he foot and say loose me grandmother.” The woman said all she remembered after that was getting the chop to her forehead.
Lake said she began panicking after seeing the blood and the bandits quickly exited the home.
They managed to escape with one gold chain, a diamond ring and two silver chains. Lake opined that the bandits probably attacked the family because her son-in-law had recently returned from the interior.
“He come out de bush Tuesday night so they think we get money,” Lake told Kaieteur News.
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