With gun pointing at her, windscreen smashed in

– in dramatic attempted robbery

By Ramona Luthi

Quick thinking by 42-year-old businesswoman Chandrawattie Juman of East Coast Demerara resulted in her evading a robbery attempt and possible injury while in her vehicle parked on Quamina Street, Georgetown, near the Watercrest Hotel on Thursday afternoon.
According to information received, at around 15:30hrs, the woman was seated in the front passenger seat of motor vehicle GWW1904, waiting for her husband who had left to transact business at the Guyana Revenue Authority.
Police reports indicate that two unmasked and armed men — one holding a hammer while the other held a handgun — approached the vehicle from an unknown direction and began knocking at the back windscreen.
Upon turning around, the woman reportedly heard the men instructing her to open the vehicle door and hand over her handbag.
When the woman refused to obey this instruction, the perpetrator armed with the gun reportedly began to pound the firearm on the front seat passenger window where she sat. At almost the same time, the other man, who was armed with the hammer and was still at the rear of the vehicle, hit the glass once, causing the entire windscreen to shatter.
The woman panicked, but quickly made her way over to the driver’s seat and drove off the vehicle in an easterly direction.
The perpetrators then fled the scene, but Police were contacted and an investigation has been launched.