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Wife, children of Chinese restaurant owner shot to death say family was targeted
Herald Sun ^ | April 17, 2018 07:21 PM | Virginia Bridges

Posted on 04/18/2018 12:41:54 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

The shooting, the family said, was an attempted robbery that unfolded as Shirley Chan and Hong Zheng returned home from work.

It was the fifth time that someone had tried to rob or break into their home since 2015. The family believes they are among a group of Asians who are being targeted because they own restaurants and people think they have money, they said.

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It was pouring rain on Sunday night when Chan and Zheng pulled into their driveway. There two children, Jade and Eastern, 16, were watching in the house for them to return, a routine they had established after four previous robberies or break-ins, a family friend said.

Chan got out of car first as her husband pulled the car farther up the driveway.

Jade’s brother, Eastern, said he saw two cars, parked and turned off, with nine or more people. When Chan got out of the car, Jade saw three or four people start approaching her mother.

Eastern grabbed a gun and a magazine of ammunition from inside the house and gave it to his mother.

“They shot at my mom at least three times,” Jade said. “My mom tried to assemble the gun.”

The gun jammed, and the attackers were running up to the house, Chan said. She was trying to protect her son and wasn’t thinking about her husband who was still parking the car.

“They ran away, so my mom ran back and forth trying to get my brother safe,” Jade said. “And she called my Dad, and he didn’t respond back.”

Chan went to the car and saw a bullet hole in the window; her husband lay in his seat unresponsive.

He had been shot twice in the face and once his neck, Jade said.

(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
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According to the article, the family had been robbed several times before. Their response was to get a gun for each parent. Based on the article, it sounds like the family, like a lot of civilians, had no real plan for what they would do in the event of another robbery, perhaps assigning talismanic powers to the mere purchase of guns.

For one thing, why wasn't the mom carrying? For another, why was the mom's gun and magazine not already assembled and ready for fire. And why weren't the 16-year-old kids armed and ready to provide backup fire?

1 posted on 04/18/2018 12:41:55 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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"...robbed or attempted break-in five times since 2015..."


Wow, sad news for this family. Very unfortunate.

2 posted on 04/18/2018 12:47:11 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Zhang Fei

Where did this happen?

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3 posted on 04/18/2018 12:48:17 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Zhang Fei

Why wasn’t the dad carrying...


4 posted on 04/18/2018 12:48:41 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Mears

Durham, NC


5 posted on 04/18/2018 12:49:26 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Blue Jays

Murder crime scene:


6 posted on 04/18/2018 12:52:08 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Zhang Fei

Leaving out the firearms-related aspects, why weren’t the kids noting down things like car make and model, color and license plates? A $300 point-and-shoot camera with 40x zoom would have gotten enough detail to nail down the make and model, and perhaps the plates as well.


7 posted on 04/18/2018 12:53:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Blue Jays

This family exercised its 2nd amendment rights too late! They should have been getting range time for a few months or years...having a gun isn’t enough, planning and training needed.

I hope they catch these extortionist thugs’

Now I hope Mon and kids keep the restaurant and get a little range time. If one of the NYC Tongs come to Raliegh to get these murderers, the perps will die slow, tortured deaths.

Asian lives matter.


8 posted on 04/18/2018 12:54:57 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: marktwain

Any thoughts on how this family could have done better, if they were able to retrace their steps?


9 posted on 04/18/2018 12:55:37 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Blue Jays

Had to be other Asians. They deal in cash as we have learned.


10 posted on 04/18/2018 12:55:51 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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"...why weren’t the kids..."


Because kids are horrified and in terror when their parents are getting gunned-down in their suburban driveway.

11 posted on 04/18/2018 12:57:14 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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No description of the perps. It’s as if the Herald doesn’t want them to be caught.


12 posted on 04/18/2018 1:00:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Zhang Fei

Shooting in the face could be to send a message to someone. I did not see a description of the perps.


13 posted on 04/18/2018 1:02:06 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Hong Zheng, 42, died Sunday night in his Hope Valley North driveway just before 11:15 p.m. Zheng owned the China Wok restaurant on South Roxboro Road near the Kroger and off Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.

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Not a single description of the perps anywhere, so they aren’t Asians.


14 posted on 04/18/2018 1:04:16 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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“Because kids are horrified and in terror when their parents are getting gunned-down in their suburban driveway.”


They’re 16, not exactly toddlers. If you’re old enough to hand a disassembled gun over to your mom, you’re old enough to be manning a scoped AR-15 to provide overwatch as your parents, the family breadwinners, are trying to make it home safely after an exhausting 11-hour day at the family restaurant. They had been robbed half-a-dozen times previously. The correct response was either to not resist or overwhelming firepower. They chose a middle course and paid the price.


15 posted on 04/18/2018 1:05:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Good lord,are you accusing the kids?

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16 posted on 04/18/2018 1:09:59 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Zhang Fei

Headline is deceiving. Easily could be read that the wife and kids were shot dead.


17 posted on 04/18/2018 1:10:34 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Zhang Fei

The gun was not ready to fire. They bought it, and for ‘safety’ kept it unloaded.

You keep the gun loaded in the house. Period. I’m sorry these people got bamboozled into their situation.


18 posted on 04/18/2018 1:11:01 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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"...not toddlers..."


You posed several questions of why the teenagers didn’t do this, that, and the other tactical things.
My insight is they were likely behaving like typical North Carolina high school sophomores and not necessarily living in Code Red status.


19 posted on 04/18/2018 1:11:16 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Had to be other Asians. They deal in cash as we have learned.”


There’s a 99.99% probability that the perps were black. That’s just the way crime stats roll.


20 posted on 04/18/2018 1:11:28 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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