New York sources have stated that an Indian descent father was shot and injured while trying to protect his son from robbers who tried to force their way into his home here, according to media reports. Earlier on Sunday a man came to the home of Thakur Persaud in the Queens district of the city and when his 13 year old son answered the door he claimed to have a package for delivery. Two other men who were hiding behind a fence came up and one of them tried to force their way into the house.
Persaud told the station that “The guy tried to push me in the house I tried to push him out, behind him another guy was coming and he had something in his hand”. He added “He don’t know how it would have ended if anyone touched my kid.” Meanwhile Persaud had succeeded in throwing the man toward the street, when that man and another fired weapons, said by police. Persaud was hit once in the thigh and hospitalized in stable condition.
The three intruders then fled. Further Persaud’s son
told that there were several children in the house at that time, but they
were in the basement. Accordingly a neighbor told that several homes in the
area have been victims of “home invasion” robbery recently and Persaud’s house
had been hit before. Persaud’s son didn’t think it was a random attack, telling
the station “Nothing is random around here.”
