Sixteen-year-old Samantha Hollingsworth, who was shot on Saturday in the Botanical Gardens by a bandit who escaped with her lap top, is recovering and may be released from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) this afternoon.
The girl’s mother told Stabroek News last evening that “she is walking around the ward and she is going okay.” She said God saved her daughter’s life for a purpose and she hopes she realises the purpose soon.
“She is a brave little girl and I am glad God saved her life,” the woman said.
The mother said her daughter is now worried about her School-Based Assessment (SBA) as some of the information was on the lap top, one of the two reasons she may have fought the bandits in an effort to prevent them from stealing it. The other reason was the fact that she had only owned the lap top for less than two weeks and she knew how hard her father worked to purchase it for her.
Her mother said she wished her daughter would have listened to her as she told her not to take the lap top when she was leaving the house.
The police in a release had said that Hollingsworth was one of a group of students who were accosted by two men on a motor scooter – CE 4573 while in the gardens. The men held up the teen, the police had said, and demanded her laptop, but she struggled with them and was shot.
The release had said that acting on information, police went to a house in James Street, Albouystown and arrested two men. The police also recovered a warhead at the scene, the release had said.
The brazen midday attack traumatized the group of around 15 city students who were in the gardens studying.
“I fight for my computer but they ride away with it,” the injured teenager had recounted on Saturday.
Covered in bruises and nursing the gunshot wound, the young woman had related that she struggled with the two men, one of whom was armed, to retrieve her laptop that was snatched but was unsuccessful. She recalled that after the men grabbed the computer they mounted a motorcycle, which she immediately climbed onto as well, but fell off after a few minutes.
The young woman had told Stabroek News that she and a group of friends had decided to study in the gardens and she took along her new laptop computer. The computer, a Sony Vaio, was purchased just last week. She related that the group was going over lessons when two men approached on a motorcycle.
