The owner of a Queens cell-phone store was shot Friday night while trying to fight off armed robbers who wanted his Rolex.
After the robbery, Top in Town Wireless in Astoria was a mess with phone cases scattered across the floor, shelves knocked over, and shell casings scattered about from the bullets that struck the owner, who remained hospitalized after surgery Friday evening.
The owner’s brother stood behind the police tape, wishing this could have been just a normal Friday night.
“We were supposed to go to dinner together – and I was calling him that ‘what time are you picking me up from the home’ and he said ‘I just got shot, can you make your way here,” said Gurpreet Singh.
Gurpreet raced to the store, where he discovered the aftermath of his brother’s struggle with two armed robbers. Police say the robbers wanted his watch, but the owner, Kunwarjee Singh, would not give his Rolex up without a fight.
“I’m pretty sure he’s a tough man himself. He might have given them a fight because I know my brother – he doesn’t give up to the robbers so easily,” said Gurpreet.