-wants attacker apprehended
Sean Thomas, the 53-year-old Burrowes School of Art teacher who was shot on February 20 during a robbery at Pattensen, Turkeyen says that he is thankful for life and wants his attacker arrested quickly.
Speaking with Stabroek News yesterday, Thomas said that in the days leading up to Mashramani, he was building and designing costumes from the lower flat of his home. Last Thursday, he had closed his place and his employees by then had also departed. At about 4.55 am on Friday, he and his wife were working to finish a small Mashramani costume to deliver hours later when a man in a black hoodie jumped his fence and held them both at gun point.
The robber demanded everything that he and his wife had. Thomas said he went down on his knees creeping toward the robber begging saying, “Is our last we deh working on as we haven’t gotten paid as yet” with an intent to disarm him but he was unsuccessful. Thomas recalled that he wasn’t even aware that he had been shot in his upper thigh until he looked down and saw blood oozing from his thigh. The robber escaped with a bag containing $250,000 in cash. He was taken to the Woodlands Hospital by his wife where he was treated and sent away.
Thomas said he wants the police to find the culprit quickly because if he’s not caught, he will likely attack other persons. Thomas said that he had met other residents who were themselves victims of robberies and the description fits the one who robbed him. Thomas said that the police need to “put a stop to it because if the robber goes free that means another set will rise up and do the same thing.”
He said he is thankful for life since his daughter was asleep in the building’s upper flat when the robbery took place while his eldest son was in another house behind his with a child asleep also. Thomas added that despite the robbery, he had to push to finish the small Mashramani costume. However, while some employees retuned to work that day to help him complete that assignment, others did not out of fear and were traumatized after they heard what happened.
