Zheng Lin Lin, the manager of the Celina’s Restaurant & Club, was shot to her leg during a robbery yesterday afternoon.
Two young men committed the attack, which occurred in the parking lot of the business premises, at the Kitty seawall, as Zheng was about to leave after a brief return from the city, where she had gone to conduct business
“She came down the steps and was going into her vehicle when they… ride up and snatch the bag…[she] hold on pun the bag and fighting up screaming when the one just shoot she in she foot… then she loose the bag and they tear out up so (pointing to the East),” an eyewitness recounted.
The incident occurred shortly after 2pm. In a press statement, police stated that the woman was about to enter a motor vehicle outside of the business place when two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, rode up on a motorcycle.
They said the men shot her to her hip and took away a handbag containing $30,000and two cell phones then escaped.
The eyewitness told Stabroek News that it seemed as if the woman’s movements were being monitored as the duo on the CG motorcycle. Persons around at the time recalled seeing the duo behind an old bus shed at the nearby jetty, shortly before the woman emerged.
Another source told this newspaper that Zheng, 26, had returned from the city and was leaving again when she was robbed. The source said that the woman entered her office briefly, grabbed a bottle of soda and left. She did not tell staff where she had been or where she was going.
Her employees rushed outside when they heard her screams and heard two shots fired. There, they said, they saw Zheng slumped in the seat of her car and talking quickly but in Chinese. They then rushed her to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
A security camera from the business establishment directly faces the parking lot where her car was parked and where the shooting occurred.
At the hospital, the woman’s husband told Stabroek News that while she was undergoing surgery to remove the bullet but, her condition was stable and he was confident that she would be okay. He said that she had told him that as she was entering her vehicle, two young men on motorcycles robbed her of her bag, shot her and rode away.
Stabroek News was told that police took the recording from the surveillance camera and were viewing it to ascertain the identity of the perpetrators and activities.
