It is reported that yesterday afternoon (June 26), there was a terrible armed robbery in Highbury, northeast of Adelaide!
At about 04:30 yesterday, the retired elderly people, Tony and Maria Marinos, were staying at home. At this time, when they heard a knock on the door, the old lady Maria went to open the door. Only to see a man dressed in the courier`s work clothes appearing at the door. Tell them there are parcels to sign for.
The man asked the old lady: "Are you Tony? The parcel needs to be signed by me."
The old lady replied, waiting for me to call her out. At this point, the courier asked, "it`s so cold outside. Can I wait in the house?"
The kind-hearted Maria let the "express" enter the door after Maria went to shout old wife Tony, unexpectedly when Tony came out, saw this "express" unexpectedly pulled out a gun was pointing at Maria`s head, and threatened: hand over your home cash and jewelry!
Tony retorts: my family has no money, let alone jewelry, we lead pension to live, ah, where did you get the jewelry?
But the robbers do not believe, insist: I know you have money, you live so big house, you must have money upstairs!
He also put the gun on Tony`s head and said, "do you want me to kill you for money?"
The 84-year-old Tony said, "if you want to kill, you can kill. You don`t need money. You kill yourself."
After a standoff of 5 minutes, Maria entered another room, groped for half a day to find out 50 Australian dollars in cash, wanted to hand over to the robbers, did not expect the robbers had run! Probably thought grandma had gone to the police.
As he fled, he drove up to Dene Road in a black car. Although things are over, Tony and Maria are really freaked out.
After that, the old couple`s son was interviewed on behalf of his parents. "now the thought of someone thinking about retiring old people makes it difficult to accept it. It`s terrible." He said。 "at first, my parents didn`t doubt it, because they were waiting.
A package. Maybe he stole some mail from the mailbox a week ago, or it could be another way. My mother told me that she thought the courier was` very friendly and very polite`. "
Police called the suspect a white man in his 20s, about 170 centimeters tall, stout and full-faced. At the time of the incident, he wore black trousers and green and yellow overalls. Police appeal to anyone familiar with the situation to contact the Police at 1800 333,000.
Fortunately, the two old people are fine, everyone Adelaide`s friends also want to be more careful, really do not let strangers into the house casually! Even the so-called express!
