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Another KFC driver held up at gunpoint...Single mom: I begged for my life

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Sascha Wilson
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Flashback, 2021: A KFC delivery man on his way to drop off a meal for a customer from Independence Square, Broadway, Port-of-Spain.

Flashback, 2021: A KFC delivery man on his way to drop off a meal for a customer from Independence Square, Broadway, Port-of-Spain.

NICOLE DRAYTON

Sascha Wil­son

Less than 24 hours af­ter she was held up at gun­point and begged for her life, a Siparia KFC de­liv­ery dri­ver was back at work.

"I have to work," said the 37-year-old work­er, a sin­gle moth­er of two boys, ages 16 and 7, dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day. She is yet an­oth­er de­liv­ery dri­ver to be lured to a lo­ca­tion by crim­i­nals dis­guised as cus­tomers and robbed.

In Ma­yaro on Sun­day night, a 41-year-old de­liv­ery dri­ver em­ployed at the Ma­yaro KFC out­let was robbed by four sus­pects un­der sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances. In this in­ci­dent, three of the sus­pects were shot to death dur­ing an al­leged shootout with the po­lice while the fourth sus­pect es­caped.

The sin­gle moth­er has been work­ing at the out­let for al­most a year. While it was the first time she had such a har­row­ing ex­pe­ri­ence, she knew two oth­er de­liv­ery dri­vers who faced sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances.

The Siparia dri­ver told the po­lice that around 9:30 pm on Mon­day, she went to Quar­ry Set­tle­ment #2 in her Nis­san March to do a de­liv­ery where she was robbed by three men, one of whom had a gun.

The woman who has re­quest­ed that her name not be used for her safe­ty said, "I thought that I was not go­ing to make it. They came to kill." She re­called that a woman called the Siparia out­let and or­dered a buck­et of chick­en and oth­er items worth $220. When she got to the ad­dress she stopped in front of a house with lights. There were al­so street lights, she added. She met a young man but be­came wor­ried as he took sev­er­al min­utes fid­dling in his pock­ets for the mon­ey. "The boy tak­ing long to take out the mon­ey from his pock­et. He keep push­ing his hand. I feel some­thing fishy."

She locked her doors and rolled up the win­dows. She then put her car in re­verse. "I tried to re­verse and I end up in a ditch. I see two men come out from be­hind a white maxi." One of them had a gun. She plead­ed for her life.

"One point­ed a gun to my wind­screen and he come around by my dri­ver's side and point­ed the gun. I start to bawl, 'I have no mon­ey, I have two chil­dren. I have noth­ing, is me alone, I have two chil­dren.' I start to pop my horn re­al hard and start to bawl'."

No one came to her aid.

In­stead, the sus­pects opened her door. Ter­ri­fied that they were go­ing to shoot her, the woman added, "I say, 'Look take every­thing.'" They stole her $300, the com­pa­ny's $100, and a Blue cell­phone be­long­ing to KFC. The sus­pects al­so stole the KFC meal.

How­ev­er, she said they saw a light fur­ther up the road and thought it was a po­lice ve­hi­cle. "But no­body (no po­lice) was there, like is God who saved me. I see one of them face so like they come to kill be­cause the one who was dig­ging in his pock­et had noth­ing on his face," she added.

She re­turned to the KFC out­let where her col­leagues calmed her down and ad­vised her to go to the po­lice sta­tion and make a re­port.

On her way there, she flagged down a po­lice ve­hi­cle with po­lice of­fi­cers and sol­diers and told them what had hap­pened. They told her to go to the po­lice sta­tion.

Still shak­en over the in­ci­dent, she said she need­ed her job to put food on the ta­ble. She has told her su­pe­ri­ors that she on­ly wants to work the 10 am to 6 pm shift. "I not work­ing in the night again. They say they will see what they could do."

Up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, no sus­pects were ar­rest­ed. When con­tact­ed Vice Pres­i­dent of KFC and Piz­za Hut Roger Ramb­harose de­clined to com­ment on the in­ci­dents, say­ing they were un­der po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion. He, how­ev­er, said that the com­pa­ny was tak­ing mea­sures to en­sure added safe­ty for their staff.


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