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Two masked, armed men attacked outdoor diners at high-end Manhattan restaurant Phillipe Chow on Wednesday, stealing one man’s Rolex watch and shooting another man in the leg when he tried take the robber’s weapon.
Police said a 28-year-old male victim was sitting outside the swanky establishment on East 60th Street when one of the men stepped up to his table minutes after 10pm.
Meanwhile, a second masked man approached another table and robbed 31-year-old diner of his Rolex watch.
‘(The robber) said, “Hey, it’s a stickup.” They wanted our jewelry,’ the victim’s date told the Daily News. ‘My date started to fight him for the gun. He shot him. It was the left leg. It was our first date. I’m still in shock.’
Police said a 28-year-old male victim was sitting outside the swanky establishment on East 60th Street when one of the men stepped up to his table minutes after 10 pm
‘(The robber) said, “Hey, it’s a stickup.” They wanted our jewelry,’ the victim’s date told the Daily News. ‘My date started to fight him for the gun. He shot him. It was the left leg. It was our first date. I’m still in shock’
‘There was shooting, and everybody screamed,’ amaintenance worker told the New York Post. ‘They ran and got scared and threw the gun on the floor, over there near the bottle on the sidewalk’
NYPD Lieutenant Lieutenant Thomas Antonetti told MailOnline that, after the 28-year-old was shot and his assailant relinquished the handgun, the victim managed to bring it inside the restaurant where it was recovered by police
The 28-year-old wrestled with the masked robber for his gun, and was shot in the leg in the struggle.
NYPD Lieutenant Lieutenant Thomas Antonetti told MailOnline that, after he was shot and his assailant relinquished the handgun, the victim managed to bring it inside the restaurant where it was recovered by police.
Antonetti said before the robbers fled the scene in a dark-colored SUV driven by a third party.
The New York Post reported that the victim staggered, bleeding, out onto the sidewalk.
‘One of the responding officers acquired a tourniquet to the shooting victim’s leg so that when EMS responded, he was already in that elevated state of care,’ Antonetti told MailOnline.
The shooting victim was coherent enough to speak with investigators before he was taken to Cornell Hospital, where he is currently in stable condition.
As of now, Antonetti said, there are no suspects or leads in the case.
‘It was like a movie,’ a maintenance worker who watched the men get out of the SUV from a nearby building told the Post. ‘Two of them got out walking.’
Philippe, named after its celebrity executive chef Philippe Chow, is a favorite of Rihanna, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj
‘It was like a movie,’ a maintenance worker who watched the men get out of the SUV from a nearby building told the Post. ‘Two of them got out walking’
A woman dining at Il Mulino next door described the chaos to the Post: ‘There were two shots. Everybody came running in, screaming,’ she said
This is not the first shooting incident at the upscale establishment: Tekashi69’s bodyguard, Faheem Walter tussled with a bouncer at the establishment in 2018 after he and another member of the rapper’s posse were turned away
‘There was shooting, and everybody screamed,’ the maintenance worker told the outlet. ‘They ran and got scared and threw the gun on the floor, over there near the bottle on the sidewalk.’
A woman dining at Il Mulino next door described the chaos to the Post: ‘There were two shots. Everybody came running in, screaming,’ she said.
‘It’s hard to believe it was a robbery. They were eating dinner out front. It looked like they were targeted. It’s crazy.’
This is not the first shooting incident at the upscale establishment: Tekashi69’s bodyguard, Faheem Walter tussled with a bouncer at the establishment in 2018 after he and another member of the rapper’s posse were turned away.
In retaliation, Walter hit one security guard over the head with a chair – the guard pulled out a handgun and shot Walter, who ultimately served 62 months in prison for gang violence for the incident, twice in the torso.
Philippe, named after its celebrity executive chef Philippe Chow, is a favorite of Rihanna, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, according to The Standard.
Cardi B celebrated the release of her album ‘Invasion of Privacy’ there, according to published reports, over a slurry of margaritas. The swanky eatery, she’s said, is her ‘favorite restaurant in the world.’
Among popular menu items are the $85 peking duck special and a $16 red velvet fortune cookie.
Source: dailymail
