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JULY MARRED BY VIOLENCE<br />
AT CHALDEAN STORES<br />
July was a violent month at Chaldean-owned stores<br />
both in Metro Detroit and California.<br />
Local authorities have arrested three people who<br />
are believed to have been involved in the robbery and<br />
shooting of Matthew al-Sheikh at the Farmington<br />
Hills Mug & Jug Fine Wine & Liquor Shoppe on July 5.<br />
Farmington Hills Police, the South Oakland<br />
Narcotics Intelligence Consortium officers, St. Clair<br />
Shores Policed Department and Oak Park Public<br />
Safety identified and located the alleged perpetrators<br />
after receiving a phone call from a witness in<br />
response to media coverage<br />
of the robbery.<br />
Two armed men<br />
wearing clear masks<br />
entered the store at<br />
about 9 p.m. They used<br />
handcuffs to lock the<br />
front door, police said,<br />
and then approached al-<br />
Sheikh, who was behind<br />
the counter.<br />
Surveillance video<br />
showed one man pistol<br />
whipping al-Sheikh,<br />
who is Chaldean, as he<br />
was trying to open the<br />
cash register. He had<br />
difficulty opening the<br />
register and was then<br />
shot.<br />
Al-Sheikh, 25, underwent<br />
emergency surgery<br />
and is recovering<br />
from a bullet wound to<br />
the abdomen.<br />
“We are relieved that these three violent felons are<br />
now in custody and are unable to cause further injury<br />
or death,” Farmington Hills Police Chief William<br />
Dwyer to told WDIV-TV.<br />
In another case, the Wireless Giant store on Little<br />
Mack in St. Clair Shores was robbed over Fourth of<br />
July weekend by two men, according to police.<br />
Investigators said two men slammed a female clerk to<br />
the floor and threatened her with handguns. The suspects<br />
were in and out of the store in less than a<br />
minute and took hundreds of dollars as well as 15 to<br />
20 new cell phones, according to police.<br />
The woman attacked at the time of robbery<br />
returned to work a few days later. “I had two guns<br />
in my head and they took phones, money, my wallet,<br />
cash — it was very scary,” the 27-year-old clerk<br />
told WXYZ-TV.<br />
Police say that the robbers fled the scene in a<br />
black, late 1990s Thunderbird. The vehicle was driven<br />
by a third man.<br />
Anyone with information is asked to call St. Clair<br />
Shores Police at (586) 445-5300.<br />
In a third incident, a father and son were shot in an<br />
attempted robbery at Narra’s at 7 Mile and<br />
Schoenherr in Detroit on July 18. According to published<br />
reports, a gunman entered the store at 9:30<br />
p.m. wearing a dark baseball cap with a light-blue<br />
bandana covering his face. He announced a holdup<br />
and shot the owner and his 15-year-old son when they<br />
attempted to close the door and get to the counter<br />
behind the bulletproof glass.<br />
Chaldean News’ requests for further information<br />
from the store were refused.<br />
Finally, a Chaldean was killed at a San Diego<br />
liquor store on July 13. Police are searching for a robber<br />
who opened fire at the store, shooting and killing<br />
Doraid Akram Toma of El Cajon, a visiting salesman.<br />
When police responded to a call of shots fired at<br />
T & M Liquor of El Cajon, Toma was found wounded<br />
and lying on the floor. Officers performed CPR on<br />
Toma until relieved by paramedics, but he was not<br />
revived and was pronounced dead at the scene.<br />
According to Channel 10 News of San Diego,<br />
Toma and the store manager were talking near the<br />
cash register when the gunmen entered the store and<br />
shot Toma, police said. Toma fell to the ground and<br />
the robber aimed at the manager who was standing<br />
next to the counter. The assailant shot Toma a second<br />
time as he lay on the floor. The gunmen then shot<br />
at the manager once more, again missing, police said,<br />
and then fled.<br />
Anyone with information is urged to contact<br />
CrimeStoppers at (888) 580-8477.<br />
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12 CHALDEAN NEWS AUGUST 2005