The Chinese restaurateur who was shot on Tuesday night during a foiled robbery attempt succumbed yesterday afternoon in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital.
Yun-Sun Chen, 49, who was shot in the right side abdomen at his Hadfield Street and Louisa Row restaurant around 8 pm, was unconscious up to the time of his death.
Chen lost a considerable amount of blood as a result of the gunshot wound and sustained internal injuries. He died some time after 3 pm.
Police so far have been unable to apprehend the two suspects who escaped empty-handed in a car that was parked across the road. Up to late yesterday evening, the police had not issued a statement on this latest fatal shooting.
When Stabroek News visited the hospital at midday, although in shock, Chen’s daughter Li Ping managed to speak about her father’s condition.
The young woman said an x-ray revealed that the bullet punctured her father’s liver then pieced one of two blood vessels located near the spine.
According to her, her father lost five litres of blood and his condition was listed as critical. A relative was consoling Chen’s weeping wife.
Li Ping told this newspaper that during the six to seven years that her father had been operating the business, there had been several robbery attempts but no one was ever shot.
Stabroek News was told that when Chen arrived at the hospital he was left sitting in the emergency area for over an hour bleeding profusely from the wound and crying out for pain.
Li Ping told this newspaper that her father had been away from the family for two months and had only returned on the day of the shooting.
“My father was murdered…. I didn’t get to spend anytime with him,” she stated before bursting into tears.
This newspaper was informed that Chen was shot through some grillwork that separated him from the men. A short distance away, another grill door was open, but the gunmen did not use it. Li Ping described her father as a very loving man who was liked by many people. She said she feels like a part of her is gone.
On the night of the shooting two customers who were in the restaurant, said that they were having a conversation and noticed when two men entered the shop. They said that they heard no demands being made.
They said they only knew something was amiss when a shot was fired and they saw the men exiting the restaurant. One young woman who was outside the restaurant however recalled hearing one of the men saying, “gimme it, gimme it”.
Many residents expressed shock at the incident and several went to the family’s home to offer their sympathy.
Chen leaves behind two daughters and a son and his wife Zhong Ci Chen.
