Six people were robbed on Thursday evening at a Delph Street, Campbell-ville shop, where two gunmen entered under the pretext of seeking shelter from the rain.
Around 7.30 pm, four men including Govern-ment Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh, were drinking under a shed at a shop when two men, who appeared to be dodging the rain, entered and leaned against the counter. The owner of the shop, who asked not to be named, said not long after, one of the men placed a gun to his neck.
“The other one pulled out his gun and told the others to get into the shop and they pat us [down] and take our money and our phones,” the man said.
Meanwhile, his mother who was watching the news on the television, heard the commotion and decided to leave the house, which adjoins the shop, to see what was going on. She was pulled into the shop and ordered to sit.
The still visibly distraught woman said she pleaded with the men not to hurt the people in the shop and they replied, “no we won’t hurt y’all Muds, as long as you do what we say”.
She said the men herded them out of the shop, into the house and into a washroom. After a while, she said one of the men returned and told her to get out and show them where the money was.
“I carried them into the room and they took the money that was in the bank book that I was planning to take to the bank,” she said, adding that she could hear people calling in front of the shop.
She said her landline phone began to ring and the gunman told her to answer and not to mention anything about the robbery. She said the call was from her neighbour who had become concerned after people started to complain that no one was attending to them at the shop. “I told her that everything was okay but I know she could hear that I was scared by my voice and another one of the neighbours called the police,” she added.
She said one gunman then instructed her to attend to a customer in the shop, but she could not tell them anything. “I was too frighten that if I say anything they would shoot us,” she added.
She said she was then returned to the washroom with the others, while the men ransacked the house.
The woman said the gunmen escaped with over $500,000 in cash from the shop and her home. When the police arrived, she said, she was crying and begging them not to hurt her. “I didn’t know that the bandits gone and that the man was a police [officer] until I see another one of them in black clothes,” she said.
