Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A 27-year-old house­wife es­caped in­jury on Mon­day, af­ter she fought back as armed ban­dits tried to rob her on the com­pound of a gro­cery in South Oropouche.

The woman was with two men, ages 23 and 28, stand­ing in the car park of Anand Low Price Su­per­mar­ket at 7.20 pm, when a white Nis­san Wingroad stopped on the road a short dis­tance away from them.

Two masked oc­cu­pants came out and ap­proached them and one of the sus­pects point­ed a gun at them and de­mand­ed, “Give me wha al­lyuh have.”

The gun­man snatched one of the men’s gold chains val­ued at $16,000 from his neck. 

When the sus­pect at­tempt­ed to grab the woman’s gold chain, she re­sist­ed and they strug­gled. The sus­pect fired his gun but the bul­let shat­tered the rear tail­gate glass of a ve­hi­cle be­long­ing to one of the vic­tims.

The sus­pects then ran back to the ve­hi­cle and drove off.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.