NYPD release pics of duo who robbed and shot Queens shopkeeper
The two robbers, one wearing a gray helmet, black jacket and blue jeans and the other, wearing a black helmet, red mask, and blue hooded sweatshirt, stormed into a cellphone store, Top-in-Town Wireless, on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria around 6:45 p.m on Friday and got into a physical altercation with store owner Kunwarjee Singh, 40.
Cops released photos Saturday evening of two armed robbers who shot a Queens Shopkeeper and stole his expensive Rolex watch.
The two robbers, one wearing a gray helmet, black jacket and blue jeans and the other, wearing a black helmet, red mask, and blue hooded sweatshirt, stormed into a cellphone store, Top-in-Town Wireless, on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria around 6:45 p.m on Friday and got into a physical altercation with store owner Kunwarjee Singh, 40.
Singh put up a struggle and the robbers shot him in both legs and the torso before grabbing his Rolex watch, worth around $22,000, and escaping on a scooter going westbound on 34th Ave. Video surveillance of the incident shows one of the robbers, reach for a gun, cock it back and point it at the store owner.
“He called me and said, ‘There were two of them. I got shot,’ and then the phone hung up,” the victim’s brother Gurpreet Singh,48 told the Daily News at the time of the incident. “My brother is a very tough guy. We deal with a lot of crazy people. My brother is not the sort of person to give in easily, he doesn’t let people rob him.”
Singh was rushed to Elmhurst General Hospital where he was in stable condition.
The robbers didn’t take anything else in the store.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All tips are confidential.
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