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Two men were left injured, traumatized but relieved, after they were able to scare off three bandits during a home invasion on Wednesday morning.

During the ordeal, one of the men was able to chop one of the bandits several times which led the criminals to shoot back before fleeing the Princes Town home.

It was all caught on CCTV footage.

Our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh visited the family and tells us what happened.
Transcript
00:00An every morning routine to get up around 5am and walk his dog in the front yard is
00:06something one 76-year-old Princess Town man will likely never do again.
00:12On Wednesday morning, the elderly man had only just exited his front porch when armed
00:18bandits entered his property.
00:29When we met with him on Thursday, he explained what happened.
00:33I was in the yard and a car stopped and three fellas come, right with masks and things on.
00:45And one had a gun, took out the gun, he want me to come inside the house.
00:50So we come and we was here and there was money and things and I tell them, well we have no
00:59money and I talking hard, they said, you talk hard.
01:03But he says not staying quiet is likely what alerted his younger male relative who lives
01:09on the same compound.
01:11Within seconds, he says, his relative came into the house armed with a cutlass and went
01:17straight at the intruders.
01:19Yeah, but he big and he strong, you know.
01:32When them see him, they start to be reversed.
01:34He come up with the cutlass and they was right here and he start to chop them.
01:38Then them start to shoot from outside.
01:41During the shooting, the elderly man was grazed on his right shoulder by one of the bullets.
01:47His relative received cuts from the broken glass of the front door, which was hit during
01:51the shooting.
01:52Both men were left reeling and undoubtedly traumatized following the violent home invasion.
01:59The elderly man says his relative's actions likely saved his life and if others can similarly
02:06defend themselves against criminals, they should.
02:09They could defend their self, but defend their self.
02:12When people come in your house to kill you, you ever kill them?
02:17Investigators recovered four Spen 9mm shells at the scene and have since made checks at
02:23health institutions in Princestown and in Virens for people with chop wounds.
02:28However, there has been no record of anyone seeking medical attention for those injuries.
02:35Investigations are ongoing.
02:37Sindhi Raghavan Tikasingh, TV6 News.
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