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Brazen robbery of $60,000 Rolex in 99 Ranch parking lot shocks Asian Americans

LOS ANGELES — A man and woman were loading groceries into their car Saturday after shopping at 99 Ranch Market in Rowland Heights, California, when two strangers approached. The woman screamed as the strangers pistol-whipped them before fleeing with the man's $60,000 Rolex. A video of the attack and its aftermath, capturing the woman's terror and the pair squatting in the parking lot as she ...
Mario Hernandez scrubs blood stains on Monday, July 11, 2022, left over from a weekend robbery and pistol-whipping in a Rowland Heights, California shopping plaza, when two suspects escaped with a victim's Rolex.

LOS ANGELES — A man and woman were loading groceries into their car Saturday after shopping at 99 Ranch Market in Rowland Heights, California, when two strangers approached.

The woman screamed as the strangers pistol-whipped them before fleeing with the man's $60,000 Rolex.

A video of the attack and its aftermath, capturing the woman's terror and the pair squatting in the parking lot as she tried to stanch the bleeding from her companion's head, quickly spread through the local Chinese community.

, snatched from victims' wrists as they dine,

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