FIFTY-FOUR-year-old, Edward Ramroop, a boat captain and a shop owner of Lot 1015 Glasgow New Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice, is nursing a gunshot wound to his right arm after he was shot during a robbery at his residence on Tuesday evening.

He remains a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital and his condition is listed as stable.

According to his wife, Bibi Zulika Ramroop, 57, at approximately 20:10 hours, two bandits, who were armed with a gun and knife respectively and were fully masked, entered their house and demanded cash and valuables.

She operates a grocery shop at their residence. Her husband was at the time sitting in the verandah in the lower flat of the house when the bandits entered their yard and shot him.

Bibi was inside the house and heard a loud sound like a gunshot and within seconds she was confronted by a male armed with a knife. The other robber was armed with a gun.

The robber, who was inside the house, placed the knife to her neck and demanded that she hands over the “money and US dollars”.

At the time, she had already closed the shop.

“When he drop to the floor, one rush in to me and say money! Money! And ask for US; I say ‘how I gon get US, this is a lil business I does do and all that I have is in the draw’ and I beg them nah do meh nothing, tek all that is there,” the woman related.

She added that her six-year-old granddaughter, who was downstairs at the time, began to cry and begged the perpetrators not to kill or shoot her grandfather.

She said after the men collected the cash, which amounted to $14,000, they quickly made good their escape. Her husband was then taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital. Two other persons who were at home during the ordeal remained in the upper flat of the house.

Bibi said that about 15 years ago, bandits had attacked her family and escaped with cash and a quantity of jewellery.

Both incidents have left her family traumatised. She is hoping that the police can intensify patrol in her community. An investigation into the robbery is ongoing. No arrest has been made so far.