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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
KEYWORDS: banglist; durham; durhamnc; murder; nc; northcarolina
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To: Mears

Don’t see that at all in the post. Just reasonable observations.


21 posted on 04/18/2018 1:12:49 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Mears

“Good lord,are you accusing the kids?”


Nope. I’m going through a lessons learned process.


22 posted on 04/18/2018 1:13:55 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: Mears

That is precisely the way I am reading these rather critical posts about those poor kids.

23 posted on 04/18/2018 1:14:29 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Zhang Fei

Shooting someone in the face multiple times tells me the perps were known and it was personal. I’m calling ENVY as the motive.


24 posted on 04/18/2018 1:16:35 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Zhang Fei

It was in North Carolina.

Blame the anti-gun propaganda for the family not having reddily available protection.

I have seen many messages that the only way to keep guns in the home is unloaded and locked up.


25 posted on 04/18/2018 1:18:11 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Zhang Fei
"Any thoughts on how this family could have done better, if they were able to retrace their steps?"

After what they had been through previously...

1. Lots of firearm training & practice.
2. Drive separate vehicles and arrive at work/home at different times (even by 5 minutes to allow the 1st to get inside and be armed and on the lookout for the 2nd arrival).

Say's a lot about our society where this happens to "average" folks who simply own a local restaurant. What a tragedy.

26 posted on 04/18/2018 1:19:28 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Blue Jays

restaurant was on MLK drive?


27 posted on 04/18/2018 1:19:32 PM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: Blue Jays

“My insight is they were likely behaving like typical North Carolina high school sophomores and not necessarily living in Code Red status.”

After you’ve been robbed that many times you should be at DEFCON 1. Or moving.


28 posted on 04/18/2018 1:24:42 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: bramps

Proofreading! What’s that!


29 posted on 04/18/2018 1:24:43 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz

“restaurant was on MLK drive?”


That’s the other reason I think the perps were black.


30 posted on 04/18/2018 1:24:48 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

One of my wife’s friends owns a Chinese restaurant.
After paying staff, insurance , taxes, fees licenses, purchasing inventory and supplies, I think they clear about as much as an engineer with 5 or 6 years experience.
Not a lot for the cash investment to have a business and all the long hours and headaches it has.


31 posted on 04/18/2018 1:26:05 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: marktwain

It was in North Carolina.

Blame the anti-gun propaganda for the family not having reddily available protection.

I have seen many messages that the only way to keep guns in the home is unloaded and locked up.


The way I see it, the kids should have been providing overwatch using AR-15’s fitted with starlight scopes. The moment a gun appeared, they should have shot the perp(s) multiple times. And if they saw gunfire from the cars, they should have riddled them with bullets.


32 posted on 04/18/2018 1:30:35 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

Dreadful. RIP.


33 posted on 04/18/2018 1:32:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Zhang Fei

Oh my goodness...at first I thought it was the wife and children that were killed. I’m sorry they lost there father and husband. And, in Durham too.


34 posted on 04/18/2018 1:33:52 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Zhang Fei; DIRTYSECRET

Here in northern Virginia, we had a time when Asians and Indians were getting robbed for their, supposed stashes of gold and cash. The ones who were caught were either blacks from DC or local illegal alien gangbangers. While it still happens, it’s pretty rare now.


35 posted on 04/18/2018 1:46:13 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Had to be other Asians.”

In Durham, NC? Not bloody likely.


36 posted on 04/18/2018 1:54:50 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: VanShuyten

“Here in northern Virginia, we had a time when Asians and Indians were getting robbed for their, supposed stashes of gold and cash. The ones who were caught were either blacks from DC or local illegal alien gangbangers. While it still happens, it’s pretty rare now.”


I think there’s a sense, probably accurate, that Asians are less likely to resist or resist with armed force. This family’s predicament is in part the result of treating a gun as a talisman. If you produce a gun in response to armed robbery, you must shoot to kill, or the perp(s) will kill you. But in order to kill, you must respond quickly and accurately. Both are precluded without a loaded gun, considerable range time and training for various scenarios.


37 posted on 04/18/2018 1:57:02 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

The wife was not assembling the gun. It was not disassembled, it was not loaded and she was trying to load a magazine. Big difference, but the big problem is why they bought guns but did not have them loaded and ready to use?

A gun is of no use if it is in a drawer and not loaded, as those poor people have now learned.


38 posted on 04/18/2018 1:57:27 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Ken H

“In Durham, NC? Not bloody likely.”

I’ll bet there are a lot more Asians in Durham than you think——NC has many-—in the last 10 years.

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39 posted on 04/18/2018 2:00:38 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Durham is 5.3% Asian, 37.9% black. Asians are among the most law-abiding groups in the US. I’d bet the rent it was not Asians.


40 posted on 04/18/2018 2:06:48 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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