A 40-year-old working at a Queens cellphone store was shot three times Friday evening in an apparent armed robbery.
Police said two armed men fled on a scooter after firing multiple rounds in the Top-in-Town Wireless store on Steinway Street in Astoria.
Kunwarjee Singh was inside the store around 6:45 p.m. when the armed duo made their move.
Singh was shot in each leg and the torso. He was rushed to the hospital and was expected to survive, according to police.
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"I just called my wife, she said he's in surgery right now," his brother, Gurpreet, said Friday night.
Gurpreet Singh believes the men were after his brother's Rolex.
"He's a tough man himself, he might have given them a fight. I know my brother, he doesn't give up to robbers so easily," he told News 4.
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Police have not announced any arrests.
