Newspaper vendor beaten, wife shot during home invasion
A 64-year-old man was brutally beaten and his wife was shot to the foot when two armed men stormed into his home around 03:30 hrs, yesterday, and carted off a laptop, jewelry and an undisclosed sum of cash.
Sebastian Ramsuchit
Up to press time, preparations were being made for 58-year-old Joyce Ramsuchit of Lot 21 CC Third Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) to undergo surgery to have the bullet removed from her right foot.
Her husband, Sebastian Ramsuchit, who sells newspapers in and around the village, was treated and sent away from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). He had gone to the hospital after he was gun-butted four times by the bandits.
At the time of the robbery, the couple’s son, Cheddi Dev Ramsuchit, was at home but was not terrorized by the armed men, who demanded valuables throughout the 15-minute ordeal which has left his father traumatized.
Yesterday, the 64-year-old man recalled that he got up from bed and started making preparation as usual to leave home to purchase his supply of newspapers when the tragedy started.
“Before I opened the door, I hear the parrot gave a different sound but I didn’t know people were in the yard, and as soon as I opened the door, someone hit me in my head. I see two of them,” the paper vendor explained.
He revealed that the men took him in the house and ransacked everywhere in search of valuables. “They beat my wife and then they shoot her when she said she didn’t have money. Eventually she showed where she had some change.”
The paper vendor said that during the ordeal, he had never been so scared and wished he was dead as a result of the way the bandits were treating his wife. “I thought that they would have hurt my son but they didn’t.”
Ramsuchit said that it is heart-rending that the bandits went into his home and tormented his family when the commission he receives for selling newspapers is only $12,000 over a period.
The matter is being investigated by ranks at the Providence Police Station.