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Gunmen beat, rob Chinese restaurant couple at Rosignol
By Leon Suseran
Some men armed with cutlasses and guns stormed a West Berbice eatery late Thursday
Mr & Mrs. Su relating what happen.
night, and proceeded to beat and terrorize the owners, and employee Beverley Craig and her boyfriend. They then ransacked the building and left with cash and items worth $1.3M.
Among the items stolen from the Chinese immigrants include 1- laptop computer valued US$2,000; 2- Iphones 4S, valued US$900 and 1- Pure China Gold Chain valued $US2, 000.
Chinese immigrants, Su Lianggen and his wife, Su Yang Kuan Qing, arrived in Guyana in 1992 and opened the Cheong Lee Restaurant at Lot 89 Public Road, Rosignol Village, in 1995. But they never experienced such brutality in an armed robbery that has left them shaken and even badly injured.
Their 17-year-old son Zhi Heng Su was on his way to close the sister-restaurant, located a few blocks away during the time of the 15-minute ordeal.
Mr. Su said that the restaurant was about to be closed for the day around 22:00 hrs, when six masked men entered the gates and made their way to the side entrance leading to the kitchen. He, his wife, an employee and her boyfriend, Cleon, were inside.
They were ordered to lie face down on the floor.
“He put the gun to my head and I lie down flat,” he added. The owner added that the bandits kept
The kitchen which was ransacked by the bandits.
asking for money and they kept applying pressure to his head with a chair while making their demands. And as they kept gun- butting him in the head and face. They said, ‘Shut your mouth! Don’t talk! Lie down!’”
The intruders tied their victims’ hands, covered their heads so that they could not see anything. The employee directed them to a jar with over $200,000 in cash.
One of the bandits then took Mrs. Su to the upper flat of the building for more cash. They ransacked the two bedrooms and upturned the mattresses and beds.
“They took me upstairs and dashed me on the ground and picked me up and put me to sit down, and put the knife behind my head and told me not to raise up my head,” his wife added. She said that she handed over the jewelry and returned downstairs.
“They took me back downstairs and put me to lie down and after two seconds I did not hear anything.” The bandits had left. That was when the Sus started to scream. The restaurant is located in a very busy shopping centre along the Rosignol Public Road.
The immigrants added that everywhere else was closed during that time. This condition may have enticed the bandits.
The employee, Beverly Craig, stated that she was in the kitchen at the back doing some washing when one of the bandits
The beaten face of Mr. Su
suddenly dragged and put her with the others on the ground.
“Afterwards, they asked where was the camera and I told them there was no camera. Then they asked for the keys to the money drawer,” she added.
Craig stated that she frantically called for help at the Blairmont Police Station, just a few blocks away, minutes after the robbery. “They said that only two women in there and they don’t have any men {police}.”
Craig, employed with the Su’s for the past three years, was beaten too. She does not believe the bandits came with a vehicle, “because to me how they moved, they moved smart and that ain’t no car business.”
Police from Fort Wellington Police Station arrived some one hour later and took statements and fingerprints.
The restaurant remains closed and the Sus stated that the incident has left them very terrified, they are unsure when they would reopen for business.
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