Bandits hack Chinese restaurant owner to death, batter wife

Aug 08, 2015 News

– suspect detained, murder weapon found at scene

Murdered restaurant owner: Zhenjz Su

The owner of the popular Jade Stone Restaurant on Mandela Avenue, East Ruimveldt, was hacked to death and his wife battered after robbers invaded their home at around 03.00 hrs yesterday.
Zhenjz Su, 35, was found gagged and bound in the kitchen area with chop wounds about the head. The killers had also dumped sacks of rice on the body.
There are reports that the intruders killed Su after he refused to open a money-safe for them. While this could not be confirmed, a police source said that the killers made off with the day’s sales.
The intruders also inflicted a savage beating on the businessman’s wife, 32-year-old Fei Su, who was attacked in her bedroom. She was battered into unconsciousness, with the attackers knocking out some of her teeth. Mrs. Su has been admitted to a private hospital.
While it is unclear how many men participated in the attack, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum disclosed that police have detained a suspect.
Kaieteur News understands that a cutlass, believed to be the murder weapon, was found at the scene. Detectives also found a piece of lumber that they believe the intruders used to club the man’s wife.
The victims have five dogs, but no one apparently heard the animals barking while the family was under attack.
The bandits had also tampered with surveillance cameras on the property.
According to a police official, the killers gained entry from a door in the bottom flat that the business couple had mistakenly left open. Zhenjz Su, a source said, would close the restaurant at around 21:00 hrs and attend to customers through that door.
A friend of the family said that after killing Su, the bandits used the dead man’s keys to open a door leading to the couple’s living quarters.
Police said that Fei Su, the wife, was confronted in her home above the restaurant by a group of men who assaulted her and took away an undisclosed sum of money before escaping.
On checking later, she found the body of her husband downstairs on the kitchen floor with chop wounds to his head.
His feet were tied and his mouth gagged. But Mrs. Su, who spoke briefly with Kaieteur News, believes that the bandits attacked her first before killing her spouse.
Her face bloated and discoloured, Fei Su said that the men entered the house via a door in the top flat and attacked her in her bedroom. According to Mrs. Su, she never saw her attackers, but one of her sons said that he saw a man, who was masked, in the room attacking her.
The businesswoman said that she was beaten into unconsciousness. When she recovered about two hours later, she found her husband’s mutilated body in the kitchen. She recalled that the body was partly covered with sacks of rice.
Mrs. Sue said that the family called the 911 hotline and the police, along with an ambulance, eventually arrived.
The businesswoman was unable to say how much cash was stolen, but believed that the killing of her husband and the beating she sustained were deliberate acts.
“They didn’t come to rob, they come to kill,” she said, adding that her son is now terrified whenever he sees strange men. East Ruimveldt residents who were regular customers expressed shock and anger that the bandits had opted to kill Mr. Su. One of the slain businessman’s brothers, who arrived in the country from Barbados after receiving the news, expressed similar sentiments.
I want them to catch the men who killed my brother. If you come to rob, rob, but don’t kill.”
The attack on the Su family is just the latest in a recent spate of savage and senseless attacks perpetrated by robbers.
On June 5, Ganesh Ramlall, the owner of Regent Multiplex Mall, was riddled with bullets by bandits in his La Jalousie home, West Coast Demerara.
On June 9, businessman Mohamed Chand and land court judge Nicola Pierre were battered and robbed in their Felicity, East Coast Demerara home. Mr. Chand lost an eye, while Mrs. Pierre suffered a broken jaw.
The men escaped with cash, jewellery and other valuables.
Prior to that, a bandit posing as a passenger shot rice farmer Hardat Kissoon dead in a minibus, after trailing him from a city bank.
And two Saturdays ago, surveillance cameras recorded a young man clubbing, kicking and stomping 77-year-old Carmen Ganesh to death in her home at Montrose, East Coast Demerara.

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