– laptop stolen; cops hold two men
Bandits attacked a group of students as they went over lessons in the Botanical Gardens yesterday, snatching a laptop computer and shooting a teenager in the thigh before escaping. Two men have since been arrested.
Police said in a press release issued yesterday evening that they were investigating an armed robbery that occurred around noon during which a student, Samantha Hollingsworth, 16, of Kitty was shot and injured in the left thigh and ankle. She has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The police said Hollingsworth was one of a group of students who were accosted by two men on a motor scooter – CE 4573. The men held up the teen, the police said, and demanded her laptop computer, but she struggled with them and was shot.
Acting on information, police went to a house in James Street, Albouystown and arrested two men. The police also recovered a warhead at the scene, the release said.
The brazen midday attack traumatized the group of around 15 city students.
“I fight for my computer but they ride away with it,” the injured teenager recounted at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday.
Covered in bruises and nursing the gunshot wound, the young woman related that she struggled with the two men, one of whom was armed, to retrieve her laptop that was snatched but was unsuccessful. She recalled that after the men grabbed the computer they mounted a motorcycle, which she immediately climbed onto as well, but fell off after a few minutes.
The young woman told Stabroek News that she and a group of friends had decided to study in the gardens and she took along her new laptop computer. The computer, a Sony Vaio, was purchased just last week. She related that the group was going over lessons when two men approached on a motorcycle.
The men looked suspicious, according to her, but before she and her friends could react to their presence the men pounced. She said that one of the men immediately demanded the laptop.
“He demanded my computer and I resisted and tried to run away with it when I hear the other one tell him to shoot me. I tried to run away, but was shot,” she related.
Even with the gunshot wound in her thigh, the teenager fought for her computer. She said that the men mounted the motorcycle they rode up with and within seconds she was on the cycle with them, but she could not hold on for longer than a few minutes. She fell from the cycle and sustained several bruises.
Shortly after the attack the teenager was transported to the public hospital.
“I like my computer and I hope to get it back,” the girl said in explaining why she fought the men for it.
According to her, the police managed to apprehend the suspects shortly after with the assistance of her friends.
u mean to tell me this is how dem GT ppl gettin on now shottin lil girls for laptop this is jus shameful…i mean go out n get a job
These scumbags are so brazen,they will attack anyone at anytime,but on the other side of the matter,this girl should not have taken her laptop out to the gardens,to show off on her friends,in Guyana the more you have, is the more you have to be careful and hide things,you are targeted just for having more than others,it is a very sad situation,I hope she will have a speedy recovery!!
Guy if they robing and shooting her for a laptop what will with a visitor to Guyana using a digital camera.
Guyanes going home I would advise them to walk in groups to avoid being killed. This not the Guyana I know and I don’t want to see this continuing. Guy123, no one is safe in Guyana and this Government is happy with it.
The Question is what do the people do?
These two bandits should be put away for a very long time.
only them?what about the other bandits in government and their friends?
we need security in that garden you know too much of person being robbed there. You are a very brave young girl but next time which I hope there won’t be, give up don’t matter how valuable it is, your life comes first.
you are absolutely right Mrs. Remember when a car as carjacked and then found in the gardens being stripped by the thieves?
Of course you would tink that based on that we should put more police on the ground and spend more money on horseback and foot patrols right?
Nahhhh lets get more propaganda going, Lets spend over 700 Million on propaganda, who wants more police and to stop crime?
Crime is good it keeps the population cardiac fit!
Very brave young woman.
This is a shameful act. Imagime school children cannot conduct their lesson, without worrying about these criminals.
Such a brave girl, she fought for her computer but could of lost her life, who are the criminals we would all see when their photos are plastered…..
Even school children are not spared by those money hungry/don’t like to work criminals.
How such a quick arrest here but nothing with regards to van Beek?
Sinister Sinister, I smell a rat.
In this case the police was provided with a license plate of the motor scotter. in van beek’s case no such information was provided.
this young lady is a brave young woman. can the business community replace this young woman’s laptop?
you are playing baseball on a cricket field here Mr. Samaroo.
Guyana oh beautiful Guyana i see a bright future for criminals now we are at our lowest point the kids getting rob for trying to share knowledge in a positive way.
my god people shooting others for their own thing my laptop was taken from me in the same manner i hope to get it back or the money soon