Shocking security footage shows the moment a Las Vegas nail salon owner is viciously beaten by three assailants inside the store after refusing to let a woman use the store’s bathroom.
Nail Palace owner Nathan Nguyen was at work on Sunday when a woman came into his salon to use the restroom and get a pedicure, according to reports. 8 Current news.
Nguyen refused the woman’s request and destroyed the plant as he left the store, located two miles from the Las Vegas Strip.
However, the woman returned with three people inside the salon who violently beat the owner, according to a video obtained by the outlet.
For nearly a minute, they stood over Nguyen, punching and kicking him as he lay on the ground and tried to defend himself from the blows.
“Yesterday, I did nothing wrong and I didn’t hurt her. I don’t understand why people would come back and hurt me like that,” Nguyen told the magazine.
After the assault, the suspects fled the scene in a red sedan, which was captured on cellphone video by employees of the nail salon next door.
Another video shows Nguyen slouched on a couch inside the store, gasping for breath in front of a blood-soaked floor.
“If they didn’t hurt me with their hands, they would have hurt me with a gun or something, and I would probably already be dead then,” Nguyen explained to the media.
“There was blood on her clothes. It looked like something out of a horror movie,” Nick Hardman, Nguyen’s spouse and co-owner of the salon, told 8 News Now.
“This is a crazy world and someone suddenly disappears and we don’t know why. This could happen to someone else, someone else could disappear… Someone has to do something. , it has to be us, unfortunately.”
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has not yet identified the suspect involved in the assault.
Despite unprovoked assaults on business owners, aggravated assaults in the Las Vegas metropolitan area decreased by 5% in 2023 and 2024, according to the state. statistics.
Statistics also show that in 2023, the number of arrests for violent crimes such as aggravated assault, criminal homicide, rape, and robbery increased by 7%.
