An East Bank Berbice boat captain is now at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was shot on Tuesday evening during a robbery at his home in Glasgow New Housing Scheme.
Bibi Zulika Ramroop, 57, yesterday told Stabroek News that she and her husband, Edward Ramroop, 54, were in the lower flat of their house along with their granddaughter while their son and grandson were in the upper flat when the two armed bandits invaded their Lot 1015 Glasgow New Housing Scheme house.
According to the woman, who operates a grocery store at her house, the bandits were armed with a gun and knife and they wore masks during the invasion.
She said that her husband later relayed to her that they entered from the back of their premises, and the bandit with the gun ordered him to hand over cash and jewellery. However, after he refused he was shot.
“Them been a go two time to shoot am he say and he beg them and then me see eventually he fall down and me know he get shoot then because he start bleed and me granddaughter (six years old) start cry and beg them na kill am”, a traumatized Ramroop relayed yesterday.
She continued, “Me been inside the house and he been outside in the veranda piece downstairs and me was looking on my phone and all wah me hear a one gun fire and me see he drop so quick and them rushed in to me”,
At that point the gunman stood over her injured husband while the bandit armed with the knife approached her and demanded cash and jewellery as well as US currency. “He brace me with the knife, he put it here and say let me give him the money, all the money, all the US”, she said.
The woman said she continued to plead with the bandit not to her hurt or anyone since she did not have any foreign currency. She then opened a drawer where she stored the money from her shop and handed over $14,000 to the perpetrators.
After the bandits collected the money they briefly ransacked the place before escaping into a nearby street.
Ramroop’s son and grandson hid in the upper flat throughout the ordeal.
Edward was rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he underwent surgery and had a piece of steel placed in his right shoulder where he sustained the gunshot injury. According to his wife, the gunshot seemed to have damaged a bone in the shoulder.
As of yesterday afternoon police were continuing the investigation and no arrest had been made.
The businesswoman is hopeful the perpetrators can be nabbed at the earliest.
