A 62-year-old man was yesterday morning stabbed about his body in an attempted robbery during which the car he was travelling in ended up in a ditch at D’Urban Street and the perpetrator was captured
Injured is Orin Braithwaite of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown who is a money changer on America Street.
When Stabroek News visited Braithwaite in the hospital yesterday he said he was experiencing pain and declined to say what occurred.
Kevin Small, who was near D’Urban Street when the car crashed said he saw it approaching with two men fighting in the front seat.
“People start screaming when the car come speeding and then it suddenly end up in the corner. After I see the car coming I just pull in a corner,” Small said.
According to the police around 10:15 hrs, Braithwaite was standing on America Street when he was approached by a man who claimed to have a quantity of gold to sell.
Braithwaite got into the man’s vehicle and it was as the vehicle was heading to D’Urban Street, purportedly to carry out the transaction, that the man pulled out a knife and began to stab Braithwaite, while attempting to take away his bag.
Braithwaite sustained several stab wounds to his hands and about his body while resisting the attack, during this time the car crashed into a drain at the corner of D’Urban and Cross streets, Werk-en-Rust.
The police further said that persons in the vicinity, including a Rural Constable rushed to Braithwaite’s aid and the suspect was arrested. The bag with the money was recovered.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told Stabroek News that the money changer reportedly had $1.8 million in his possession.
He said the car was a rental and the man had obviously intended to rob Braithwaite.
The suspect is currently in police custody.
