Employee wounded in robbery of Ladyville shop

Earlier this week in reporting on the double murder of Said and Daniel Sewell in Ladyville we referred to that village as a quiet sort of place. Actually the record show it’s not, and last night another incident proved the point. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details.

Marion Ali, Reporting
It was not business as usual today for forty-three year old Gung Han Lu, owner of Everyday Supermarket at mile thirteen on the Northern Highway. Sometime after eight-thirty last night three thugs held up Gung, two of his workers and a customer inside the store. One was armed with a gun, another with a knife, and the third carried a black bag. The men ransacked the place, stole three thousand dollars in cash and fifteen hundred dollars in phone cards. They also shot one of the shop assistants.

When we visited the scene this morning, the bloodstains where Kim Fu Zhen fell after being shot were still on the floor. Tonight, Kim is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with bullet wounds to his left shoulder, abdomen, and left leg. The men who shot him also left behind this black knapsack on the counter. Shop assistant Yesenia Duran says they caught her by surprise.

Yesenia Duran, Shop Assistant
“I mi di watch movie with them when I turn my face back they grab me.”

Marion Ali
“So your back was to the door?”

Yesenia Duran
“Aha. My back was to the door.”

Marion Ali
“How these men looked?”

Yesenia Duran
“I don’t know. They didn’t have any mask or anything, just like that they come in.“

Duran said she thought the men were just going to rob them and leave, but the shooting of her co-worker was totally out of line.

Yesenia Duran
“He mi di cook. Nothing else he mi di do and they shot him for nothing, when they done mi di go they shot him and they lock the door fi mek none ah we come out and when the Chinese man stand up grab his and when we come outside nobody mi deh outside. Deh mi done gone.”

Although Gung Han Lu has a licensed firearm, he did not have it on him when the attack occurred. The thieves also stomped him in the face during the assault, injuring his nose. Police had detained two people for questioning but they have since been released. Duran says she believes the robbers were not from the immediate area because it was the first time she had seen their faces.

Marion Ali reporting for News Five.