Antigua : “They meant to kill us! He fired the gun right at my face … He held a gun at my daughter’s head and that was like hell for me.”
Those were some of the terrifying details a 46-year-old mother recounted yesterday, adding that she is “numb and frightened” after she and her five-year-old daughter were ambushed by two young, armed bandits outside their Golden Grove New Extension home on Saturday night.
The businesswoman, who wished not to be named, continued, “My daughter was coming out the vehicle and they put a gun to her head.
“She was begging them ‘leave my mommy alone’, ‘please don’t hurt my mommy’ and they yelled at her ‘shut up, get out, get out,’ and dragged her out and shoved her down.”
Detailing the ambush from the start, the victim said she arrived home around 10 pm, parked her Toyota Noah van in the yard, turned off the ignition and put one foot out the vehicle when she saw someone in dark clothing rushing towards her.
She said she jumped back into the van, started it, locked all doors and tried to drive away, but the criminals attacked swiftly.
The ruckus got the woman’s husband’s attention and he rushed from inside the house to rescue her.
“The guy moved the gun from my daughter’s head and pointed it at my husband and told him if he made one more step he’d be dead,” the victim said.
The saleswoman said she begged the thieves not to shoot her husband and their child and they eventually let the child go while the husband retreated indoors.
”I was bawling ‘murder, murder’ at the top of my lungs and all the neighbours came out and then the two men got into my vehicle and drove off with my purse, some money, all my keys and some other stuff,” she said.
Admitting she “was not thinking,” she said she jumped into her husband’s vehicle and chased the thieves who lost her in the dark.
She said lawmen attached to Gray’s Farm Police Station responded quickly and recovered the vehicle in a ditch within 20 minutes but the robbers were long gone.
The assailants’ faces were hidden behind ski masks, but information reaching investigators suggests they are young, possibly in their early 20s.
One was dark in complexion while the other was very light skinned. Up to press time they were still on the run.
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