A taxi driver was carjacked on Friday night when he was tricked into making a drop to West Ruimveldt by a man who posed as a desperate customer.
At around 11.25 pm Fazio Khan, a resident of Chelsea Park, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara was held at gunpoint and robbed of his Toyota Allion, bearing registration HD 1117, his cellular phone, a radio set and his driver’s licence.
The attack was allegedly carried out by three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
According to a police press release, enquiries revealed that Khan was at the Vlissengen Road base of City Taxi Service, where he is attached, and one of the suspects approached him and requested a taxi to go to West Ruimveldt.
Khan proceeded to the area and upon arriving in the vicinity of Cool Square, two other suspects approached the driver’s side door of the car.
“The suspect who was armed placed the gun to the victim’s head and ordered him out of the car,” the police said.
Khan complied after which two suspects joined the third man in the car and they escaped east along Mandela Avenue.
Speaking to Sunday Stabroek yesterday, Khan related that when the bandit who posed as a customer arrived at the base, he was wearing a helmet.
He explained that the suspect told him that he needed to go to Cool Square, West Ruimveldt urgently to meet an individual who borrowed his motorcycle.
“He [suspect] said someone borrow his bike to go buy beers and fall down…and he keep stressing so I buy the story and tell him alright let we go,” Khan related.
Upon arrival at the location, Khan said the suspect asked that he go through a street for them to meet the man who would pay the taxi fare.
However, according to Khan, his car could not go through the street. As a result, he said the suspect told him that he would telephone the individual and ask him to come meet them.
After time passed and the suspect was calling the individual to no avail, Khan said he told the suspect to not to worry about the fare.
However, by that time he said two of the four males who were standing at the street corner approached him. “One said they had $200 and the other one said he had $500 and they will pay me,” Khan said. At this point, Khan said the men proceeded to hold him up.
Khan related that he tried to escape and a scuffle ensued between him and the bandits. “I say is dead I dead hay because them man keep holding me down,” he said.
Whilst on Mandela Avenue, Khan noted that he managed to run out of the car. “I run out and I see like fifteen vehicles driving on the road and I knocking on people car asking for help but nobody ain’t paying me no mind,” he said.
He added that he spotted a truck driver, who he rushed to and asked for help. By that time, the bandits sped away with the car.
