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Business community takes fight to criminals…$2M reward for arrest of restaurant owner’s killers
Angered by the recent spate of brutal robberies, some members of the business community are saying “enough is enough” and have decided to take the fight to the gangs that seem bent on unleashing a new crime wave on the society.
Murdered restaurant owner: Zhenjz Su
Friday’s hacking to death of restaurant owner Zhenjz Su and the brutal assault on his wife appeared to be the last straw. Yesterday, some prominent city businessmen announced that they have posted a $2M reward for information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of Mr. Su’s killers.
Persons with information can call telephone number 662-4076 and all information will be confidential.
“We are sending out a strong message to those who think that they can just come into our business places and homes and rob and kill,” one of the businessmen told Kaieteur News.
“We will not sit back and let that happen. If the police aren’t getting anywhere, we are prepared to spend our money to get the information and help the police to put these criminals away.”
Zhenjz Su, 35, the owner of the Jade Stone Restaurant in Mandela Avenue, was gagged, bound and chopped to death in the kitchen area of his restaurant.
The killers 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. However, they 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.
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.
Mrs. Fei Su said 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. She recovered about two hours later and found her husband’s mutilated body, partly covered with sacks of rice, in the kitchen.
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.
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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