Police say that at about 1245h yesterday, Naronatie, 49 years, and her son Rovindra Prashad, 29 years, were at their home at Better Hope, ECD, when they were confronted by two men armed with handguns, who held them up and took away two cell phones and $17,500 and escaped on foot.
According to police, Prashad pursued the two perpetrators in his motor car along the Better Hope Road during which the men discharged rounds, one of which struck Luchanda Beckles, 24 years of South Vryheid’s Lust, ECD, to her left thigh as she was walking along the road.
Prashad however continued pursuing the two men who subsequently separated. He later saw one of them along Victoria Road, Plaisance, whereupon the armed man again discharged rounds indiscriminately, one of which struck pregnant teacher Anesha Sanders, 32 years of Victoria Road,
and who was standing on her verandah, to her abdomen.
The armed man then held up the driver of motor car PNN 7456 which had stopped, and took away the vehicle which he later abandoned in a canal in the Plaisance Squatting Area and fled into the canefields, police said.
Police ranks who had responded to the report cordoned off the area and eventually arrested the suspect. A .32 Taurus pistol with one
round was recovered from him.
The man has been admitted a patient under guard at the GPHC, for medical treatment to injuries he is suspected to have received during his escape bid.
Police said that contrary to reports carried in sections of the media today, he was not shot by the police. His accomplice managed to escape.
The two injured women were taken to the GPHC where Sanders was admitted, while Beckles was treated and sent away.
Investigations are continuing.
