The owner of a Queens cellphone store trying to fend off two armed robbers was shot in both legs before his assailants fled on a scooter, police said.
Kunwarjee Singh, 40, was keeping shop at Top-in-Town Wireless on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria when the gunmen barged in around 6:45 p.m. Friday, cops said.
Singh put up a struggle and the robbers shot him in both legs before grabbing his Rolex watch and escaping on a scooter.
After the gunmen fled, Singh called his brother to tell him what happened.
“He called me and said, ‘There were two of them. I got shot,’ and then the phone hung up,” said 48-year-old Gurpreet Singh. “My brother is a very tough guy. We deal with a lot of crazy people. My brother is not the sort of person to give in easily, he doesn’t let people rob him.”
Medics rushed the victim to Elmhurst General Hospital in stable condition.
“His wife is at the hospital and said he’s in surgery right now,” the victim’s brother said. “We were supposed to go to dinner together. It’s my son’s 13th birthday.”
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