Attorney Phillip Koonj Beharry and his friend, a United States professor, were tied up and robbed at gunpoint at the San Fernando Hill last Thursday.
But the two gunmen did not seem interested in the foreigner, Koonj Beharry, said.
During the 20-minute ordeal, he said, the gunman apologised the US citizen.
“He said, ‘Yankee, I have nothing against you. You just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is the Trini’s I don’t like’ said Koonj Beharry.
Throughout the entire thing one of them kept saying ‘boy, let we kill them’ and his friend kept saying no they got what they wanted. He just wanted to kill,” Koonj Beharry said.
The attack happened at around 4p.m. last Thursday.
Koonj Beharry said several people were at the park. “We walked towards one of the sheds. There were two guys hiding in some bushes with a gun. The one with the gun said, ‘Come, come, don’t run. If you run I will shoot you.’ They took the both of us to that highest point on the Hill. During the walk they were saying don’t look back. While we were walking they were focusing more on me. I did not realise my friend had slipped his iPhone out of his pocket into the bushes. They put both of us on the ground and told us to remove our shoes. One of the men tied our hands behind our back. Then the other one was not satisfied so he untied us and tied it again,” he said.
Koonj Beharry, 29, said one of the men took his glasses but threw it back when he realised it was not an expensive pair.
The men, who wore bandanas to cover their faces, ordered their victims to handover their wallets, cellphones and car keys.
“He opened my wallet and I had $4. He put the gun to my head and asked where is they money. I said that is all the money I have and he was really upset. He said took my phone and asked for the PIN. Then he took all my bank cards and asked for the PIN,” he said.
Koonj Beharry said the men repeated that they would shoot if he was lying.
He said the men walked through a track at the back of the rock and escaped. They did not take his vehicle.
Koonj Beharry, who lives in Port of Spain, said his friend found his cellphone and they contacted the police.
“About five police vehicles arrived. The officers came up to the rock and found is. The officers who responded were very helpful. But when we got to Mon Repos police station the officers there did not take a report,” he said.
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