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Wednesday night, a masked man robbed the Casa Blana grocery on Beach Channel Drive in the Rockaways, shooting 35-year-old Makel Maharram in the head twice and shooting at Maharram's 11-year-old cousin Luqman Sharhan twice, but missing. With the robber still on the loose and Maharram in the hopsital, Sharhan's father Saleh Sharhan hopes they can "flush the guy out" with Luqman's story.
The Times describes Luqman's extended family, a group of Yemeni immigrants own a few delis and bodegas, and how his father was trying to "instill a solid work ethic in each of his six children" by having them work at the delis. The 11-year-old was helping out Wednesday night because another employee was celebrating successfully passing a citizenship test. The gunman came in around 9PM and immediately shot Maharram, once in the temple and once in the jaw. In between stealing Dutch Masters cigars, the gunman shot at Luqman, narrowly missing him. The boy told Newsday, "I could see the hole in the piece of wood next to me. I think he thought he hit me." The gunman then forced Luqman to empty out the register; the man fled with $600 and "a bunch of black and blue do-rags."
Maharram is in critical but stable condition at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. His children and wife, who recently had a third child, still live in Yemen. Luqman's father said that a surveillance camera technician was supposed to install a camera earlier in the week but was a no-show. Saleh Sharhan said, "For us, this is the American dream. It may look small to some people, but for us, it’s a very big thing, to open businesses in a foreign land.” And Newsday wrote of Luqman, "Call him the bravest 11-year-old in New York."
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Someone must've really wanted do-rags.
If the city’s black advocates paid even a tiny fraction of the attention they pay to shootings by criminals as they pay to shootings by police, they could change the face of the city. If demonstrators gathered outside the jail cell of every rapist and teen stick-up thug, cameras in tow, to shame them for their attacks on law-abiding minority residents, they could deglamorize the gangsta life. Think you’ll find Sharpton or Barron patrolling with the police in dark housing project stairways, trying to protect residents from predators? Not a chance.
–Heather MacDonald
How about install of instilling in your 11-year old child a solid work-ethic, you instill in your child a solid school-ethic. 9pm + 11 year old child = pretty damn near bedtime.
When will you pasty-faces realize that criminals come in all colors. The next time a white guy sticks a gun in your face, just hand over the money and smile - it's probably better being robbed by someone white - right?