Holy Redeemer teacher robbed in classroom

Schools have become the new target of thieves and News Five found that a brazen thief went too far in the most recent robbery. The robber not only pounced on an educational institution, but he also attacked a teacher’s assistant in the presence of a young child. It happened around five on Tuesday evening when a robber walked into a classroom at Holy Redeemer Primary on North Front Street and held up the assistant in the presence of her six year old niece. The thief viciously assaulted both and then helped himself to a handbag containing over two hundred and fifty dollars, credit and identification cards before fleeing on a bicycle through the front gate. News Five spoke with the victim, Nicholett Bradley, who says the incident has left her traumatized.

Nichollett Bradley, Assaulted and Robbed at School
“Me and my niece were still here and he came in and I was at the blackboard erasing the date to put on today’s date. And then he came in slowly approaching towards me with the plastic bag over his left hand and his hand shaped like a gun. And then he put the hand towards my chest and said give me all weh yo have and then I tell ahn I no have nothing. Just like that I did. And then when we started to struggle my niece started to scream and she proceeded towards the front and told him to leave my auntie alone. And that is when he shubbed her and she fly from here to the desk and she stooped down by the desk and stayed there screaming while me and him was struggling for this purse because he grabbed the purse from up here because I was proceeding to the door to go out. And then we struggled all the way to the door, then when he punched me in the corridor, that was when I fell. I get right up back and I run behind him through the door, but his bike was parked at the big black gate where we go out and then that is when he get on the bike throw the purse over his arm and ride over the field. We usually call off at four, we could leave at four. So at four I would leave and I will take my work at home. I won’t trust to stay here again because everywhere was locked up. So I don’t know if he was watching me or stalking me, I don’t know.”

Suzette Arzu, Principal, Holy Redeemer Primary
“I’m not sure if it’s a past student but I’m sure it’s somebody who knows the compound because the area where that took place, somebody had to know that we have classes behind there, because it’s through a corridor, through an extra gate, so that person really, really knew where he was going.”