A 77-year-old woman who was beaten and robbed during a home invasion in All Saints earlier this month has died, turning the case into a homicide investigation.
Police said Mariete Andersone, a Latvian national who had been living in All Saints for about two weeks, died shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, following complications from injuries sustained during the attack.
According to reports, Andersone called family members in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 12, saying she had been awakened by two young men inside her bedroom. She reported that the intruders were armed and beat her about the head with a firearm while stealing gold jewelry valued at approximately US$100,000.
Family members rushed to the house and found her lying in bed, bleeding, disoriented and visibly injured. They attempted to contact police several times but received no immediate response, relatives said. As daylight broke, they encountered officers nearby who said they were responding to a separate shooting in the same village.
By about 6:30 a.m., Andersone’s condition had deteriorated. She was unresponsive and breathing abnormally when emergency medical personnel arrived. She was transported to hospital, where doctors determined she had suffered severe head trauma, including traumatic brain injury and internal bleeding.
She underwent emergency surgery and was later admitted to the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition. Despite intensive medical treatment, she never recovered and died six days later.
Police have not yet issued a detailed public statement on the case.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact the police as investigations continue.
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Have mercy Lord.
WOW! This is horrible condolences to her entire family and I hope the person or persons are caught and beaten really badly with the law book…
Wow! Wickedness!!!+
We must learn to Love GOD
Love our neighbors as ourselves
“Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you”.
Oh my goodness. The police and government systems aren’t working properly, I just want officers in the communities on foot, bicycle, vehicle and satellite locations in all villages.
The people need better access to the police, they can run out and get a police or scream and get a police, or a police is likely to be present as the phone system, 911, and so forth doesn’t work effectively.
At this time the only way to substantially positively impact this crime problem is to ensure officers are in all areas of each village 24/7.
I am also demanding that any officer (on or off duty) who is injured while attempting to stop a crime must be covered fully by the government insurance and receive any disability and retirement benefits, if permanently and severely injured. Other benefits for temporary injuries that result in time off.
We need all available help and motivation to save this country from criminality.
The government should get solar powered streetlight with camera combination out of china to replace all existing streetlights system and help the police and government solve crimes.
Wicket heartless people, and the things that man rob and steal will outlast them, they will go to their grave and these none living objects remain here and get cobwebs or someone else recommit the same greedy act without learning it doesn’t make any sense.
And the politicians should distribute the wealth equally and stop hoarding it for themselves and family and create this perilous financial and social condition where theses young men feel that they want to emulate the politicians instant get rich overnight gratification scheme, and all these passport or amnesty and millennial act citizenship given out by ALP and UPP has created an socioeconomic pressure on our small society society, all these you ladies from Santo Domingo and Jamaica and Guyana has put pressure on these young men to provide for them as the bread winner and made them feel emasculated, and that’s the reason also they go out to rob to prove their manhood. But they are stupid and will either end up on jail or a grave.
Lord have mercy …..wicked set of young men
Look y’all take a life , poor lady . So these men dont have a mother, sister, Aunty etc . Stealing is wrong but why beat her . Just take it and go now y’all kill her off chups
I pray y’all find them and beat them just the same way they did this grandma 77 year old and did that dammm they need too find them
Enough is enough!!!
These lowlife criminals and murderers have long declared mayhem on the innocent and hardworking people of Antigua & Barbuda.
What is it going to take curtail these monstrous acts? The robbery of a politician’s loved one or even something worse?
All we ask of our politicians, is for more night-time patrols; more visibility of policing in the daytime; and harsher sentencing when the perpetrators are eventually aught.
Oh, and I also forgot to mention that our Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin must cease and desist from releasing so-called comparison crime figures with other Caribbean countries, when we’ve got rising crime figures right here, right now!
Antigua is a cesspool of crime and our leaders are doing nothing to stop it.
Interesting in knowing where the crimes will be dealt with. And then the refugees soon come to add to the ongoing crimes. Stay safe out there guys and say good bye to the lovely island of Antigua
This isn’t just about one incident. It reflects a wider problem with violent crime and a breakdown in respect for human life. I bet they won’t look at it this way……
The most disturbing part is that the family couldn’t get police assistance immediately. That is unacceptable.
How many elderly victims does it take before this is treated as a crisis?
Rest in peace, Mariete. The country owes you answers.