Liquor Shop Murder
30-year-old father of three, Navtej Singh, died after being shot in the chest with a .22 calibre rifle last Saturday night during a robbery in which alcohol, cash and phone cards, worth $4000, were taken.
His friend and business partner, Gurwinder Singh, is very depressed, he was with him when he died. Navtej and Gurwinder had worked together for three years at a Papakura liquor store, before they decided to go into business together and bought Riverton Liquor in February. Navtej paid for his half with proceeds from the sale of his father’s land in India. It’s profitable work for those willing to put in the punishing hours, but it comes with dangers. Singh’s murder was just the latest fatal attack on Indian dairy and liquor store workers in recent years. In January, 22-year- old Krishna Naidu was stabbed to death in his father’s Manurewa superette, and in June 2005, 58-year- old Bhagubhai Vaghela was shot during a robbery of an Auckland mini- mart. The killings stretch further back: in 2000, Mangere liquor store owner Shiu Prasad, 54, was stabbed to death, and in 1993, youths beat West Auckland shopkeeper Navin Govind to death with softball bats. -www.stuff.co.nz
Personally I think this is very inappropriate. First of all, Navtej Singh did exactly what they asked for. He had his hands up and had done nothing at all wrong, but they still fatally shot him. Also, I don’t see why anyone would ever want to do something like this let alone actually do it. Like Harjinder Singh has said, “Her husband was killed for beer and a few dollars and she could never forgive those responsible.” I can understand fully why she said this.
When I hear news like this, it saddens me to know that people in our community would ever do somethong like this. Also since it is mainly younger people doing crimes like these, it makes me wonder what the younger generations are going to turn out like and how safe any of us are. It was very inappropiate and I think that no one should ever do something like this. I think there are many opportunities in New Zealand for eveyone to earn a living without having to be a theif or murderer because all this is going to do is get them in trouble and cause a lot of problems for the innocent victims. So over all I think it would be nice if we could live in a country where problems like these never occur. The people who commit these crimes are just plain stupid and it is never going to do them any good.
What’s your opinion?
