One person has been arrested in connection with the storming of a Superbet outlet located at 51 Castello Housing Scheme, West La Penitence, Georgetown and the chopping of a customer and assault of the co-owner.
This is according to the Deputy Regional Commander, Senior Superintendent Michael Kingston who told Stabroek News yesterday that one arrest was made on December 22 while the hunt is on for the other suspects.
Trimella Archer-Stuart, who runs the business along with her husband had told this newspaper that on December 20 around 10:30am, she was in the cashier’s cage attending to three customers when she saw through her window, a gang of men enter the premises.
Bearing cutlasses, they tried pushing the door open to enter with the intent to attack the customer who was inside. The customer in turn tried to keep the gang out by bracing against the door.
The men then rushed to the window where Archer-Stuart was and threatened that if she did not open the door, they would “deal with me.” Archer-Stuart added that when she pushed the grill of the cashier to tell the customer who was trying to keep the attackers out, to go outside, the men stormed inside the business, and as the customer attempted to seek refuge in the cashier’s cage, the men started chopping him. She was struck on her left upper arm and left thigh with the gun one of the men had in his possession.
During the fracas, one of the attackers was injured, and while the men were taking him out of the premises, she and another customer ran out of the building. The woman related that the injured customer was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital while she went to the nearby health centre to attend to her injuries.