Kang Hwan Yoo, negociante The 70-year-old remains in the hospital on a ventilator and in critical condition two weeks after being stabbed in a robbery at his business in the Bronx (NYC) and no one has been arrested for the near-fatal attack.
According to the NYPD, a man entered Yoo’s beauty supply store on White Plains Road and lor stabbed repeatedly in the stomach with a knife during an attempted robbery, reported Pix11.
Unfortunately, this incident is not isolated. It is an alarming trend. “We cannot turn a blind eye to this growing wave of violence.”
Kwang Kim – President of the Korean American Association of Greater New York (KAAGNY)
“We want security! It doesn’t matter if the perpetrator is mentally ill or not! “We don’t want to get killed!” said Terrance Park, president of the Asian Voters Alliance.
The members of the Korean American Association of Greater New York (KAAGNY) joined elected officials, friends of Yoo and longtime customers in front of his store yesterday to express their outrage at this incident and two other robberies, all committed within a few hours on Friday, December 15.
Police say they were committed by the same suspectwho was wearing a gray hoodie, which just 15 minutes before stabbing Yoo he had stolen $200 dollars from the cash register of an African restaurant a block and a half off White Plains Road.
Two hours earlier he had threatened the owner of a dry cleaning shop with a knife. in Nereid Avenue, donde stole $6 dollars from the register and left, police said.
“Unfortunately, this incident is not isolated. Rather, it is an alarming trend.. We cannot turn a blind eye to this rising wave of violence,” said Kwang Kim, president of KAAGNY.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In addition to suffering a wave of robberies, New York stores have become scenes of violence against employees and customers.
Nearly all (93%) of New York City’s 3,000 supermarkets have been targeted by thieves in recent months, and most are being robbed daily, according to a new survey. Additionally, the New York Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is concerned about an alarming trend: Pharmacy thefts have increased 620% in the last two years statewide.
Theft at New York City retail stores rose an alarming 81% during the first quarter of 2023, in many cases with violent attacks on employees and business owners. This was reported in May by the group Collective Action to Protect Our Stores (Collective Action to Protect Our Stores, CAPS-NY) representing 5,000 establishments, including supermarkets and warehouses, again demanding that state congressmen pass laws against shoplifting. They ask, among other things, for the imprisonment of thieves who attack workers.
Many owners have chosen to reduce hours and lock up merchandise. given the rise in robberies in stores, pharmacies and warehouses, in many cases with violence against employees and the public.
Early this month The owner of a laundromat was fatally shot during a group robbery at his business in Brooklyn (NYC). They took his gold chain and no one has been arrested. Days later, a 53-year-old man was beaten by at least two subjects in the aisles of a supermarket in the Bronx.
In September a Siena College survey identified crime (73%) among the biggest concerns of New Yorkers. According to another alarming survey released this summer 70% of NYC residents fear that they will be victims of a criminal act.
2023-12-30 13:47:00
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