Anaheim jewellery retailer proprietor thwarts mob of burglars with gunshot – NBC Los Angeles
An Anaheim jewellery retailer proprietor is relieved however not letting his guard down Monday after he managed to scare off greater than a dozen burglars with a single warning gunshot from inside his retailer final week.
Safety footage reveals 5 automobiles pulling in entrance of Al-Amira Jewellery on Brookhurst Avenue at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The group of about 15 to twenty, wearing hoodies and face coverings, closed in on the storefront as some tried to interrupt the entrance door with sledgehammers.
“I’m trying within the window. I see 5 automobiles with the folks coming to my retailer,” mentioned the jewellery proprietor, who didn’t share his title because of security considerations. “At this second, I needed to defend myself.”
Video from inside the shop reveals the proprietor firing a single gunshot, scaring the group away from the entrance door. He mentioned he didn’t wish to hurt any of the would-be burglars, so he purposefully shot towards the ceiling, the place the bullet lodged itself within the bulletproof glass.
The proprietor added that his retailer is supplied with bulletproof doorways and an intensive safety system.
“I’ve to defend myself and my enterprise, and each single jewellery retailer has to do the identical,” he mentioned.
Al-Amira is the third Anaheim jewellery retailer to be focused in a few month, in keeping with Anaheim investigators.
Sgt. Matt Sutter of the Anaheim Police Division mentioned he’s investigating potential connections to different jewellery retailer roberies.
On Tuesday, police arrested 5 folks after a housebreaking at Don Roberto Jewelers, about 4 miles away. In June, two folks had been arrested after driving their automotive into Besan Jewellery retailer, which is throughout the road from Al-Amira, in keeping with police.
“I’ve seen a few of these automobiles in different robberies that I’ve seen on the information, so they could be associated. A number of the automobiles are very particular,” Sutter mentioned.
Police mentioned they had been capable of determine one license plate out of the 5 automobiles concerned, and are pursuing different leads.
