Armed bandits struck at a Mandela Avenue home last evening and after discharging two rounds, fled with a brand new car, $2,000 and some documents.

During the ordeal which occurred some time after 9 pm, Cecil Carter was injured on his hand and had to seek medical attention.

Recounting the ordeal, owner of the property Cecil Semple, a friend of the injured man, said they were chatting in the yard at his Lot 662 Mandela Avenue, Ruimveldt, and he left his friend to go and fix a water problem upstairs.
As he was going up the stairs, Semple said, he heard a gunshot and turned around to see Clarke on the floor and two men, one armed with a gun, standing over him.

Semple, who lost his son, Ancel, a soldier to a hit and run accident at Aubrey Barker Road last month, said he told the men to take what they wanted as he had already lost everything. He said the men then fired another shot, which missed Clarke’s head by a few metres and having already grabbed the keys to the car from Clarke, took off with it. The money and documents were in the car.

Semple said he has been robbed nearly every year of photographic equipment, the last time being the night his son died.