A 79-year-old man has been within the intensive care unit with a mind bleed since a pair of violent robbers beat the grandfather and longtime Brooklyn jewellery retailer proprietor in a $100,000 heist.
Shawn Cohen stated his father, Manny, was making an attempt to lock up the shop in Prospect Lefferts Gardens round 5 p.m Friday when two males barged inside and beat the person inside an inch of his life.
“We just pray and we put the faith in god and the nurses and doctors here,” Cohen stated from his dad’s hospital Sunday.
His father’s screams might be heard on the store’s surveillance digital camera, which additionally captured the alleged suspects ransacking the store for greater than 20 minutes.
“You gotta take all the rings,” one of many suspects might be heard saying to the opposite. The brazen duo walked out with trays of bijou, one among them saying their pockets had been stuffed.
The New York Police Division launched a picture of the 2 males early Sunday in hopes somebody will help determine them.
Handout Two males needed for beating Manny Cohen, a longtime Brooklyn jewellery retailer proprietor.
Cohen knew one thing was fallacious when his father didn’t name after work Friday like he often does. He checked the digital camera within the retailer from residence and located the unthinkable.
“I scroll back even further and I see they’re actually fighting with my father, beating him up,” he stated. “They almost beat him to death just to rob the store.”
Cohen stated officers discovered his father when the robbers tried to disguise him underneath the subfloor.
“It’s heartbreaking this can happen to anyone’s father,” Cohen stated. “We need to wake up as a city, we need to wake up. This is not normal.”