Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green said that her 9-year-old grandson is still traumatized after the attack on her family at her Lot 853 Canary Road, East La Penitence home on Saturday last.
When Stabroek News spoke to her yesterday, she said she was still counting her losses which she estimated at about $1 million and was trying to deal with the situation as best as she can.
Chase-Green told this newspaper that she was awakened by a strange sound around 2.30 am which prompted her to venture out of her bedroom. She said as she walked along, she was confronted by a man who placed a gun to her head. She stated that in a rage, she asked the perpetrator “What’s wrong with you? What’s wrong with you boy?
“After I ask him tha, he turn and say what’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with me? Go in that f-ing room and he chuck me in the other room,” she said. There, she explained, she met with the second bandit and her daughter-in-law and grandson.
While her relatives were in a frightened stated, the armed man searched through the room and continuously asked for money and jewellery
“They went from room to room. I told him son I don’t have anything in the house but you can take whatever you find or so and he put us to lie down on the bed and left and went in the other room and turned on the light,” she said.
Chase-Green stated that she, her daughter-in-law and grandson spent about ten minutes in the room before her husband came and told them it was safe to come out.
“After that I didn’t know anything else, till when my husband came and say y’all can come out now, they gone. He said they were in that room and they were telling him don’t move, don’t move and he still insisted on moving and that’s how they assaulted him with the gun and ransack all the money and jewellery and took everything… tv, play station, everything of value that they could have gotten their hands on,” she said.
During the ordeal, Chase-Green said, a gun was placed to the head of her grandson and this has left the child frightful. “My grandson who the gun was placed at, he is still traumatized.
He don’t wanna get up during the night to go to the washroom. We still have to deal with him and with this in general as best as I can,” she explained.
She further stated that the two bandits gained entry into the home through the verandah door which they opened after breaking a single pane in the wooden door.
She said concrete blocks were left mounted against her wall and the men may have used this to climb to the verandah.
No further update was given by police after the arrest of one of the men the same day, she related.
Chase-Green agreed that she will have to improve security on her home, adding that she had lived there for some 28 years and nothing of this nature has ever occurred.
