While it would seem that these days, the police just roll up to pick up bodies and bullets - they do still make arrests. That was the case this weekend - as the familiar crime of a home being shot up for no reason was reported. On Saturday night at 9:00 p.m., Rosangel Pouchie and her three sons were sitting on her veranda while she was getting her hair braided. One of her sons noticed a man walking by wielding a gun and raised an alarm, which caused all of them to duck for cover. Just then, the assailant pulled the trigger and let out a gunshot that went into the yard hitting the family vehicle. Mrs. Pouchie said that she got up to see what was happening only to find herself looking down the barrel of a gun.:
Rosangel Pouchie
I saw two guys. The guy looked at me but the gun wouldn't go off. He tried to crank it again but it just refused to load and he just went his merry way like he hadn't done anything. We came downstairs to look for a shell. That's when my son realized that the vehicle had a hole. If that gun had gone off the second time I would have been in trouble because he was pointing it right at me and I was standing up. I am very scared, I have taken certain measures for security purposes and, we are afraid of retaliation from the family or anything like that. But, ahm, as you are aware, we live very close to Majestic Alley and we have never felt this threatened before. Those guys, everybody is always saying that, oh they are terrible, but to us they have never done anything to harm us and these guys came all the way from another area, from the King's Park area to do damage around here.
Pouchie said that the police responded in less than ten minutes. Both men were picked up with the gun and bullets. They are 21 year old Ceil Gill and 21 year old Roland Small and they appeared in court today where they were charged with damage to property, and two charges of aggravated assault. They were caught with a.22 special revolver and live rounds. They were denied bail and remanded.
Producer: Jules Vasquez