During a robbery at a New York City apartment on Monday night, two masked robbers shot and killed a mother in front of her husband and son as she tried to protect them. The New York Post reported..
According to the Washington Post, two suspects wearing black balaclavas are accused of following the victim's 61-year-old husband into the Two Bridges building at 44 Market Street in southern Manhattan, then into an elevator and attempting to rob him.
“It all seems surreal,” Liu's son told The Post on Tuesday. “Right now I just feel sadness.”
The newspaper quoted sources as saying that suspect Lin Rong Yan, 32, had rang the doorbell for his father to let him into the building and was waiting in the hallway on the eighth floor when the elevator opened, revealing the crime in progress.
When Yang tried to intervene, one of the suspects hit him with a pistol, sources told The Post.
The mother, Ying Chu Liu, a 57-year-old home care worker, heard what was happening and ran out to tackle the robbers with a stick, but was shot in the face in front of her husband and son, the paper said.
The robbers stole Liu's husband's cellphone and fled, The Washington Post reported, and the pair were still on the run as of early Tuesday morning.
Police told the paper that the shooter was wearing a half-red, half-black hooded jacket, black pants with white stripes down the legs and white sneakers, while the second suspect was wearing a black hooded coat, black pants and black and white sneakers.
Liu's son told The Washington Post that he did not know either of the suspects.
The newspaper reported that 12 hours after the fatal shooting, the hallway was still stained with blood.
“I heard a fight and gunshots so I called 911. I didn't open the door. I feared for my life and thought the best thing to do was call the police,” said neighbor John Lee. He told WCBS-TV.
“It all seems surreal,” Liu's son told The Post on Tuesday. “Right now I just feel sadness.”
A family friend added to the paper that “no such crime has taken place in this building” in the past 10 years.
Anyone with information about the incident can confidentially call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), WCBS reported, adding that tipsters can also submit tips. online or via direct message on Twitter translation:.
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