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Vere Tech students robbed at gunpoint on school's dormitory
By KARYL WALKER Editor - Crime/court desk [email protected]
Thursday, September 26, 2013
THE Clarendon police were yesterday maintaining a presence at the Vere Technical High School at Hayes in the parish following the armed robbery of nine students on the school's dormitory yesterday morning.
Police report that four men barged into the dormitory about 2:15 am, armed with handguns and high-powered rifles, and robbed the students at gunpoint.
The gunmen made off with cellular phones, laptop computers, bags, and books.
None of the students were injured.
Yesterday, staff at the school were tight-lipped about the incident and refused to speak with the Jamaica Observer.
However, one student said the victims were traumatised.
"The man dem shaken up bad. The gunman dem point dem guns at them and some a dem still scared," the student said.
A resident of Hayes told the Observer that this was the second time in recent months that students at the school were being robbed.
"Is mus' be people who know the area do this. Is the second time now this happen at Vere. Every school under threat because time get hard and the robber dem on the loose," the resident said.
The dormitory area of Vere Technical is located at the back of the school compound, very close to an area with heavy brush. There is no wall or fence behind the buildings.
It is suspected that the gunmen made their escape through the bushes.
Another student said the fear factor was very high.
"People are very afraid and we are very concerned for our fellow students who went through that terrible ordeal. I am just glad that no one was hurt. I hope whoever do it get catch because it wrong to rob schoolchildren whose parents work hard to make them comfortable," the student said.
An officer at the Hayes Police Station said an investigation into the incident had begun.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2g5LgYzB2
By KARYL WALKER Editor - Crime/court desk [email protected]
Thursday, September 26, 2013
THE Clarendon police were yesterday maintaining a presence at the Vere Technical High School at Hayes in the parish following the armed robbery of nine students on the school's dormitory yesterday morning.
Police report that four men barged into the dormitory about 2:15 am, armed with handguns and high-powered rifles, and robbed the students at gunpoint.
  A section of the dormitory where gunmen held up nine students of the Vere Technical High School early yesterday. (PHOTO: KARL MCLARTY  1/1  |
None of the students were injured.
Yesterday, staff at the school were tight-lipped about the incident and refused to speak with the Jamaica Observer.
However, one student said the victims were traumatised.
"The man dem shaken up bad. The gunman dem point dem guns at them and some a dem still scared," the student said.
A resident of Hayes told the Observer that this was the second time in recent months that students at the school were being robbed.
"Is mus' be people who know the area do this. Is the second time now this happen at Vere. Every school under threat because time get hard and the robber dem on the loose," the resident said.
The dormitory area of Vere Technical is located at the back of the school compound, very close to an area with heavy brush. There is no wall or fence behind the buildings.
It is suspected that the gunmen made their escape through the bushes.
Another student said the fear factor was very high.
"People are very afraid and we are very concerned for our fellow students who went through that terrible ordeal. I am just glad that no one was hurt. I hope whoever do it get catch because it wrong to rob schoolchildren whose parents work hard to make them comfortable," the student said.
An officer at the Hayes Police Station said an investigation into the incident had begun.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2g5LgYzB2
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