Pump Attendant is Shot During Armed Robbery at Freetown Gas Station
Adrian Perrera
A gas attendant was shot over the weekend at his place of work, the Puma Gas Station on Freetown Road. Adrian Perrera was attending to a customer when he was pounced upon by an armed robber wearing an orange hoodie. Perrera was shot to the back during a struggle with the robber who made off with part of Perrera’s cash sales. The robber fled the gas station and Perrera remains hospitalized K.H.M.H. Here is News Five’s Isani Cayetano with a report.
Isani Cayetano, Reporting
On Saturday evening, twenty-four-year-old Adrian Perrera was at work and was attending to a customer at pump five here at Puma Freetown Service Station when he was approached by an armed robber. The lone assailant demanded cash from Perrera while brandishing a firearm. When he refused to hand over the money, both men got into a tussle.
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch
“A struggle ensued after which Perrera fell to the pavement and he was then shot by the culprit. Some money fell on the pavement and the culprit retrieved the money and made good his escape thereafter. The victim remains stable at the K.H.M.H.”
Perrera was shot once in the center of the back and while he is in stable condition, the family fears that he may not walk again, His sibling, Angela Lopez, told News Five that she was at home that evening when she received a phone call from her brother’s place of work.
Voice of: Angela Lopez, Sister of Shooting Victim
“I just remember I get wahn call from di workplace saying that Adrian get shot. Ih mi really surprising and shocking to we because Adrian da noh wahn person weh heng out pan di street, if da from work to home, from work to home, and ih mi just shocking fu we fi hyah that, you know, ih get shot da work.”
Perrera’s attacker is described as someone who was wearing a hooded orange shirt and a pair of black long pants. According to Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, footage from surveillance cameras installed on the premises is being reviewed as part of an ongoing investigation.
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
“We are reviewing surveillance cameras and conducting interviews.”
Reporter
“No suspects at this time.”
Hilberto Romero
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
“No suspects at this time.”
Reporter
“Sir, in terms of this, I know that before we’ve always asked you, you know, if someone approaches you with a gun and wants money, was he wise to have put up a fight the way he did?”
Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero
“Again, every circumstance is different and all the information we have is that there was some struggle and thereafter he fell and was shot.”
Perrera’s prognosis, says his sister, is grim because the injury affected his spinal chord.
Voice of: Angela Lopez
“He tek wahn ultrasound this morning, we noh get back the results from the ultrasound but definitely he supposed to go do wahn surgery fi tek out di bullet. We are waiting on the specialist to come in then we will know exactly what’s going to happen with him. He da wahn fun bwai, funny, love to laugh, love to play. Tek ih job real serious and ih family, ih mi di work real hard fi ih family.”
Isani Cayetano
“Now how are you guys taking this? I know it’s a difficult and terrible blow to handle.”
Voice of: Angela Lopez
“Well right now I still kinda shocked. Sometimes I wish I coulda just go sleep and wake up back eena just wahn dream. But I glad fi still have wih bredda with we, but we noh know if ih wahn eva walk again from di situation weh ih eena right now.”
Reporting for News Five, I am Isani Cayetano.
