An owner of a Chinese-American milk bar in Dandenong North, Melbourne, was robbed Friday night after two suspects slammed his head with a gun butt, injuring his eyes and head. In May and June, there were two robberies of Chinese shopkeepers in Victoria.
Jimmy Huang (source: Herald Sun)
Jimmy Huang, a 47-year-old Chinese shopkeeper who runs a milk bar on Heatherton Rd in Dandenong North, Melbourne, was supposed to watch TV at the back of the store when he heard his wife, Ding Ying (Yin Ding, watch the store around 09:30 on Friday night, the Herald Sun reported. ) screaming.
Huang rushed to the front desk of the milk bar and found that two men broke into the shop and tried to rob. "I heard my wife screaming, so I ran out to see what was going on, and then they caught me and hit me with a gun at the bottom. It was so bloody that I couldn`t fight back, and my wife kept begging them to stop. "
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Ms. Ding, 42, tried to escape, but was stopped by two men waving pistol. They jumped onto the counter, making her unable to escape. When Ms Ding tried to escape for a third time, she watched the mob beat her husband. She managed to take off her coat and then went to the next-door pizza shop to call the police.
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"if I hadn`t escaped to the police, I really didn`t know what would happen because no one would come and my husband would have been hurt even more," Ms. Ding said. Two thugs` beatings caused Huang`s head to swell and his eyes bruised. And the gunman repeatedly beat his head with rifle butts, causing him to lose too much blood and for a time he could not see anything.
The two suspects, one African-American and one white, aged about 20, fled the crime scene after stealing A $300 in cash and 20 packs of cigarettes from Huang`s shop.
Ms Ding said she was worried because many milk bars had recently been robbed and that there was a laundromat and wine shop next door. The couple have now installed cameras and security fences at the counter. "the first thing we have to do is run, our lives matter most, and money doesn`t matter," he said. We couldn`t run on Friday. It happened so fast that they caught us and beat us. "
On Saturday, the day after the crime, Huang`s store was still open, and it was reported that they had run it for 11 years, the first time they had been attacked. The couple said they worked long hours a day, from 06:30 to 09:30
Zheng Zhang (source: Herald Sun)
On May 12 this year, a man armed with a bat broke into a milk bar on Coleman Road in Melbourne`s Boronia district and beat up a Chinese clerk with a stick. The owner of the Coleman Rd milk bar is Chinese, and the owner`s 21-year-old nephew, Zhang Zheng (Zheng Zhang, was in charge of the store that night.
Xing Ming Lin (source: Herald Sun)
On June 7 this year, four masked robbers broke into a milk bar in Preston, Melbourne. One of them beat Lin Xingming (Xing Ming Lin, a Chinese-American shopkeeper, thanks to his 31-year-old son, Ben Lin, who ran away with a baseball bat and took one alive, driving away the bandits with a baseball bat.
