A woman was shot and robbed of her handbag while shopping for lemons at the Bourda Market yesterday morning.
Fifty-one-year-old Sheriza Gourga Regis, a saleswoman of Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty, was robbed of a handbag, containing cash and a cellphone. Police say that the robbery occurred around 10.45 am at the intersection of Bourda Street and North Road.
It was stated that Regis was at a stall shopping at Bourda Market when two men on a red and white XR motorcycle approached her.
One of the men, who was armed with a handgun, disembarked the bike and demanded that Regis hand over her bag but she refused and as a result the suspect forcefully pulled away her bag and discharged a round in her direction. The bullet hit her to the left side of her abdomen. The two men subsequently fled the scene.
The victim was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital in a conscious state and is presently admitted as a patient.
According to vendors, who did not want to be named, the woman was walking along North Road looking for lemons when she stopped at a vendor just past Bourda Street. The vendor who was tending to the woman at that time recalled her asking for lemons but she did not have any. The woman then showed interest in some peppers and it was during a conversation about the peppers that the shooting occurred.
The vendor recalled, “She ask about the pepper and I was showing her it then all of a sudden we hear a gunshot.”
She did not realise what had happened until persons started screaming that the woman was shot.
It was then that she looked at the woman and saw blood streaming out the side of her abdomen. The vendor said they called the police and the woman, who was in a conscious state, was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Another vendor recalled seeing two men on a motorcycle riding away with the woman’s handbag after the shooting. “All me see was when the bike pass and I hear people hollering that the people on the bike shoot the lady,” she added.
