By Desilon Daniels“I ain’t screaming for thief at that time; when I see this man pull up the first thing that come to me is, ‘wait; is the whole family gon’ geh kill out now?’ because of wha’ happen with Courtney; that’s all I thinking.”Imagine this scenario: in the security of your own home, a masked man enters and attacks you. For many, the initial thought would be that this intruder is a thief, ready to steal hard earned possessions right from under your nose.Marika PaulHowever, for Marika Paul of Grove,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, East Bank Demerara,Wholesale Jerseys, a thief was not the initial idea that came to mind when she was attacked as she prepared to secure her home. Instead, Paul wondered whether the man had come to claim her life in the same way her brother-in-law Courtney Crum-Ewing had been killed.And though the attack eventually turned out to indeed be a home robbery, Paul’s initial fear of a planned assassination is one that can only be understood by a handful of Guyanese.During an interview, Paul recounted that she had returned home at about 20:00hrs on Thursday with her young son. She said that she parked her car, opened the gate and quickly closed it behind her before removing her son from the vehicle. She then locked the vehicle and proceeded into the house with some bags and her son in tow.“I now turn to close the grille and as soon as I pull the grille now to bolt it, a man just appear in front of me in a mask…when he appear he pull open the grille and start assaulting me,” Paul said.She said the man’s mask completely covered his face and had two holes cut into it for his eyes.She added that the man kept up his assaults,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, propelling her back into her home. Paul said she instantly looked around for her son. Fortunately, he had sought refuge in his room, locking the door behind him.“I was just looking around to mek sure he out of the way and all the time the guy keepMarika Paul’s Grove home where she was attackedhitting at me,Wholesale Jerseys Authentic,” Paul said. She added that throughout the ordeal she just kept screaming. However, her shouts were not to alert people about a thief.“I ain’t screaming for thief at that time; when I see this man pull up the first thing that come to me is, ‘wait; is the whole family gon’ geh kill out now?’ because of wha’ happen with Courtney; that’s all I thinking,” Paul said.Despite her overwhelming fear,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, Paul said she kept trying to fight the man off. She said that she was struggling to pull the mask off of his face while he seemed to attempt to pull something from his side to use as a weapon.What seemed to be the defining moment came when Paul managed to remove the mask and saw the man’s face.“When I see he face now and I screaming and doing all of this he realize that I see he. I don’t know if he think twice to don’t do me anything but he just pull back,” she said. She said that the man looked around before picking up her gym bag and searching through it. However,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, after realizing that there was nothing of value in it, he tossed it and headed for her handbag instead.By then, Paul said she began to realize that the man was a mere thief and not an assassin sent to kill her.“I start screaming for thief because at that time I realize it was not a killing but a thief,” she added.Paul said she attempted to “scramble” him but after the man pulled a knife out she decided to let him go.He swiftly jumped over the fence and escaped on a bicycle that had been flung into nearby bushes. Though some residents of the area pursued him he managed to escape.Paul said she knew that her attack was witnessed by at least one neighbour. She said too that persons had been on the other side of the street when she came home. Paul further said that the neighbourhood had been plagued by robberies in recent months. She attributed the recent rise in crime to the erection of bridges connecting her side of the area to the other.Paul’s reputed husband Dwayne Crum-Ewing explained that the family had been taking extra precautions since Courtney’s murder. He said that his partner would usually not head home alone but had done so on Thursday evening to prepare lunch for the following day.“Right now I am scared…me and my son just lock up in here,” Paul said. She expressed the belief that the thief had been watching her nights in advance before making a move.The police are yet to make a visit to the home to investigate the robbery, Paul said. She intimated that the police’s absence was strange since the very station had responded mere minutes after Courtney’s shooting last month.The