Three shopkeepers assaulted in a week

One week ago grocer Wu Wuo Zheng on Jane Usher Boulevard was hit in the head with a gun as two men robbed his shop. On Monday night it happened again to Lee Chao Jheng on Gill Street. This morning a third attack: Uan Wuu Ming was hit repeatedly with a gun butt in front of his shop at the corner of Dean Street and Euphrates Avenue. Inspector Mario Vernon of the Criminal Investigations Branch says police believe the same two individuals are responsible and they know who they are looking for. But in the meantime the Chinese community, and all the city’s shopkeepers, are wondering who will be next, and when. News Five was at the scene of the latest assault.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

Fifty-six year old Uan Wuu Ming had just returned from the market, when two dark complexioned young men rode up on bicycles and attacked the him outside of his grocery shop. According Xin Quin Luo, she was inside the building and was not aware of what happened until she went to open the shop’s door and saw the blood and heard her husband cry for help.

Xin Quin Luo, Wife

“When I open the door, I see the blood out, I open the gate, just like that. He said hurry call my son come, I go to the side and called my son.”

A witness who did not wish to appear on camera said the incident happened so fast there was no time to react.

Voice of Witness

“They start to beat him and the Chinese man started to fight back with them and they tried their best but they could not get any money from him…as far as I am concerned they did not get anything.”

Ming who was hit in his forehead with a gun was treated and released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.

According to our witness, a Tourism Police Officer saw what was unfolding and quickly ran after the assailants but they managed to escape.