Sascha Wil­son

A Chi­nese em­ploy­ee was in­jured af­ter be­ing as­sault­ed with a bro­ken bot­tle dur­ing a rob­bery at a su­per­mar­ket in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day night.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred at RTT Mall Su­per­mar­ket on Fran Street, Co­coyea Vil­lage. The em­ploy­ee was at the busi­ness around 8:45 pm, with the 78-year-old pro­pri­etress, al­so a Chi­nese na­tion­al, and a fe­male em­ploy­ee who is a Span­ish na­tion­al, when three ban­dits wear­ing ski masks stormed in­to the su­per­mar­ket.

One sus­pect jumped over the cashier’s counter and be­gan plac­ing bot­tles of al­co­hol in­to a Jans­port back­pack, while an­oth­er con­front­ed the male em­ploy­ee. Dur­ing a strug­gle, the em­ploy­ee was struck on the head, right el­bow and left up­per thigh with a bro­ken glass bot­tle. A third sus­pect stole an undis­closed quan­ti­ty of cash from the cash reg­is­ter.

The ban­dits fled in the di­rec­tion of the San Fer­nan­do By­pass Road. Po­lice were un­able to prop­er­ly in­ter­view the vic­tims due to a lan­guage bar­ri­er. The in­jured em­ploy­ee, who was bleed­ing pro­fuse­ly, was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was treat­ed for lac­er­a­tions to the scalp, left thigh and right el­bow. Mon Re­pos po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.