A Ca­roni busi­ness­man, who is al­so a li­censed gun own­er, was able to scare off a group of six ban­dits who tried to break in­to his home ear­ly on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the busi­ness­man’s wife was asleep at their Kel­ly Vil­lage home around 3 am when she heard a loud noise.

Look­ing out the win­dow, she saw six masked men try­ing to cut a pad­lock on the gate to get in­to the house.

The woman called for help and her hus­band took his li­censed pis­tol and opened fire on the ban­dits prompt­ing them to run off.

Of­fi­cers from the Ca­roni Po­lice Sta­tion were called in and found a bolt cut­ter and crow­bar which were dropped on the ground, be­lieved to have been used by the ban­dits to try and en­ter the home.

On Tues­day, a fam­i­ly of five was al­so robbed at their Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni home. Dur­ing the rob­bery, a 17-year-old girl and her 41-year-old fa­ther were pis­tol-whipped by one of the ban­dits.

The at­tack­ers stole two cell­phones and the keys to a car parked out­side the fam­i­ly’s home, how­ev­er, the ban­dits even­tu­al­ly ran off when they re­alised there was no bat­tery in the ve­hi­cle.

— Shane Su­perville