Junior Hercules, the coach for the national basketball team, and his family are now traumatised after they were robbed by four men in an early morning attack yesterday.
The four men, two of whom were armed with handguns, were able to force their way through one of the kitchen windows at the family’s Lot 163 Farm Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara home, and then held them up at gunpoint. Hercules himself was bound and gagged.
According to Hercules’ pregnant wife, Kellyann Payne-Hercules, the attack occurred around 3.45 am. At that point, she was in the bedroom on the second floor and she was awakened by two of the men, who she mistook as her husband, who had fallen asleep on the ground floor.