Since fast food restaurants are locking up their lobbies or closing altogether to avoid robbery in Oakland, I'm honestly surprised there are any jewelry stores left.
Phuong Jewelry has been in business for over 40 years though, and the owner wasn't going down without a fight when 8 robbers hit him on Wednesday.
Dude rolled up on them with a blaster and they scattered!
(Remember when Oakland PD said to scare perps off with air horns?)
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"We've been robbed a few times before but not at this level of brazen magnitude. Eight individuals and two getaway cars and guns drawn," says Tony Trinh whose mind was racing after learning about what happened. "I thought, did my mother get shot? Did my father get shot? Did any of our staff of community members?"
Surveillance shows 69-year old mother Diane ducking for cover and screaming for help as those eight individuals smash nearly every single case and ransack the shop. With no security guard on duty at the time, Diane's 76-year-old husband comes storming in wielding a firearm which scares the suspects away.
"If he hadn't done that they would have kept going," says Tony, who estimates about 85 to 90% of the store's inventory was taken in the heist. Diane's American Dream, gone in less than a minute.
"My mom was devastated and my dad was broken," says Tony.
The worst part?
The family had to drop their business insurance, which covers theft, because the premiums have skyrocketed due to rampant crime and inflation.
What are the chances that Oakland police manage to track down any of those perps or this family's property?
A GoFundMe to help the family is here.
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