Shopkeepers charged in shooting

Two Chinese shopkeepers who fired shots at some customers during an incident at their shop on the corner of Vernon and Mayflower Streets on Thursday have been arraigned on multiple charges. Jun Ming Zhao, twenty-two, and Jun Yang Zhao, nineteen, have been charged with “public terror” and discharging a firearm in public. In addition, Jun Yang has been charged with harm for wounding a seven-year-old boy with a stray bullet, and discharging a firearm without a license. According to police reports, two customers had a misunderstanding with the merchants and began to throw glass bottles at the shop. In response, the shopkeepers fired two shots, one each from a sixteen-gauge shotgun and a nine-millimetre handgun. The little boy was grazed in the neck by one of those bullets and the slug was found in his house. So far, however, none of the customers who initiated the violence by throwing the bottles at the shopkeepers have been arrested.