RESIDENTS of Lamaha Park are continuing to live in fear for their lives following last Tuesday’s indiscriminate discharge of gunfire by seemingly amateur would-be robbers whose bullet hit and carved a hole in the glass door of an Internet café in the neighbourhood. 

Shortly after 02:00 hrs on Tuesday, about five young men swooped down on the home of a Lamaha Park family who had been expecting a crate from overseas as they prepared for a wedding.
Two of the men forced their way into the bottom flat of the building, while others positioned themselves at strategic points around the building. However, the would-be robbers were intercepted by family members and hotly pursued by public-spirited neighbours who hurled sticks at them to keep them at bay.
Incensed, the men opened fire at the residents, and in the process hit the glass door of an Internet café. What is strange is that the bullet ended up hitting that object, which was “wide of the mark” and exactly on the opposite side of the road from where the action was taking place.
This development has raised serious concerns about the capability of persons into whose hands weapons are ending up, and the impending threat posed to innocent lives.
And following that shooting, on one night that fire crackers were discharged, children jumped out of their sleep, hysterical, fearing that guns were being used once more in the street.

(By Shirley Thomas)