Queens pizzeria stabbing victim ‘overwhelmed’ by good Samaritans
The 61-year-old lady who two Queens pizza males tried to avoid wasting from a mugging says she’s “overwhelmed with gratitude” for the pair of pie heroes, who every wound up getting stabbed by the vicious attackers.
Powerful-as-nails Korean immigrant Eun Hee Chang mentioned she additionally bought stabbed within the incident, however she’s simply positive and even went to work as a house well being care aide the following day, she mentioned in an interview with WABC News.
The station paraphrased the Korean-speaking Chang’s phrases, by which she described barely realizing she bought reduce and going dwelling after the violent assault Saturday evening outdoors Louie’s pizzeria in Elmhurst.
Surveillance video reveals three males strolling up behind her and assaulting her as she pushed a buying cart, stabbing her within the again.
She informed ABC she didn’t understand what was taking place and mentioned the knife plunged into her again felt like she had been punched.
Chang mentioned she ran to the close by pizzeria as a result of she’s an everyday — prompting restaurant proprietor Louie Suljovic, 38, and his 68-year-old father, Cazim Suljovic, to chase the thugs.
Each males had been stabbed by the suspects and suffered punctured lungs, however held on to the thieves lengthy sufficient for cops to indicate up and collar two of the brutes.
“You may’t let it go,” Cazim Suljovic informed The Submit this week. “I’ve a mom. I’ve sisters. Thank God I solely had fingers [to fight them]. If I had one thing else, a special story would have occurred.”
Robert Whack, 30, and his brother-in-law, Supreme Gooding, 18, had been hit with fees together with assault, harassment and felony possession of a weapon — with Whack additionally dealing with an tried homicide cost.
The cowardly pair was additionally charged with grand larceny for allegedly snatching a handbag with $2,500 from a 75-year-old lady on March 16, authorities mentioned.
Chang mentioned she went dwelling after the assault, the place her constructing superintendent realized she was shedding blood, she informed the outlet.
And she or he went to work the next day, saying she wanted to make a dwelling.
Hailie Kim, a staffer on the MinKwon Middle, a Korean neighborhood group, mentioned assaults towards Asian-Individuals continues to be a significant concern within the Large Apple.
“We will’t isolate these victims,” Kim informed ABC. “Now we have to see the larger sample, which is that AAPI [Asian-American and Pacific Islander] violence, violence towards our neighborhood, has gone up about 360-percent inside the final two years.”
