– 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.
BRAVE WOMAN IN DEED. YOU ARE A WARRIOR GAL, THATS GOOD, HOPE YOU GET BACK YOUR COMPUTER, THO,
GET WELL SOON, WOMEN LIKE YOU ARE NEEDED TO RUN GUYANA,
What is guyana coming to, when student can’t study in peace without being robbed at public places, it was very brave of her to put up a fight for her property, but it wasn’t a good thing to do material thing could always be regained, but a life can’t be regained, i’m glad that she’s ok,and the suspects held, let the law do the right thing and jail these suckers if guilty.
…. the more i read of incidents like this the more i despise burnham an the legacy of corruption he has left on the people of GUYANA ! My GOD ! when will this end…. is the police makin any effort to check on the motor cycles ,, their owners ,, and who bought these motor cycles for them ,, which from all appearances ,, they have no jobs except to murder for money to buy mo’ drugs !….
what the hell r u talking about?
how long ago did burnham die?
some of these criminals have never laid eyes on burnham.
cing that u dispise burnham, y dont u go and tell him how much u despise him.
What the hell Burnham has to do with this, this is 2009, Burnham dead and buryed in August 1985, 24 years ago.
You “NEVER” mention a word about the young woman who was shot and could of lost her life. Give me a break
Michael Tennassee.
… “legacy of corruption” … mt, you include white-collar crimes, too? … a crime is a crime after all … regardless of the station/class/’race’/status/etc. of the person who commits it, like those who buy drugs … as well as those who sell it …
mike,
It’s not only the legacy of corruption burnham left, he also left a lazy uninterested police force who thinks that they’re in a wok fuh get de pay, not in a job to do a service to protect people, and a nation with a totally broken education system (among others) where the people cannot get the education relative to getting jobs or even the thought to bother to create jobs so because of not going to school, they turn to crime, that’s what they’re bright in.
…aye, mackydog … while those who have gone to school and tek dem edikashan know how to tikkle de sistem and fiddle de books and james de kitty …
she a brave young women.these criminals have no mercy, so i think once caught the law should show no mercy on them.
vERY BRAVE YOUNG WOMAN KEEP UP THE FIGHT LADIES
Congratulations! Samantha you are an exceptionally brave young lady. You have emerged the winner and we hope that the two alleged accomplices will be put behind bars. Your study group may want to consider a safe out door class room in the future. No one seems to be insulated from banditry. This is just the reality of a once beautiful Guyana…
kudos to the young lady gun crimes penalty should substantially
be increase rather than the tap on the wrist that the judical
system give these criminals
… motor scooter steals laptop … what’s the comparative costs of the 2? … anybody …
She is not brave…she dumb as a rock…she could have died for a computer…that was plan stupid. But something must be done about those criminals…this is out of hand. but props to the police for finding them
i disagree alicia,she’s only 16 and dont know better, a lab top is a precious item to students and she probably felt the impulse to protect what her parents saved for a long time to purchase this lap top.
Yes she is very brave young lady and she is not stupid Alicia.
Not a single word of comfort from you who I assume to be
so smart.
I must agree with you Alicia.A laptop computer can be replaced, a life cannot.
Here is what the SAS Security Handbook has to say.
“The same basic principles apply to security in the street as in the home.You must restrict the criminal’s opportunity as much as possible and curtail his ability to take advantage of those opportunities that cannot be removed altogether.You don’t leave your doors and windows open when you go out and similarly,you must not put your most valuable item -yourself -in a vulnerable position on the street.”
wow, and I suppose you are smart for bashing that child. She was brave.
Yeah , Laptop could be replaced but again , she’s only 16,it’s like taking a candy from a child after they already taske it and find out how sweet it is , they gon bawl for it !!! Alicia if she was 20 and up I would have agreed with u but not this time.
Gosh Michael Tannassee u either brave or been drinking uncle sam’s liqa 2 much but I kinda agree with u a little . The thieves are a result of the rippling effects brought about by the years of incompetence from the pnc ! Guess who use to organize the bandits & thieves to go and beat up the WPA & PPP members during their outdoor meetings ??
… ULTIMATE ! ,, i witnessed what ure talking abt ,, the “beatin” up at la penitence market back in the early 70s !
they were under the dark of the shed of the drugstore opposite the market ,, where “road apples” was being used as missiles and hurled at the speakers ,,, whose back was to the market !!!!!
i am so saddened and appalled right now. The safety of our future is at stake.