Chinese teenager shot dead in robbery at Panama City convenience store
Youngster had been working in Central American country for two years to pay for her sister’s medical treatment
An 18-year-old Chinese woman was shot dead in Panama last week while working in a convenience store in the nation’s capital, Chinese media reported.
Pan Ziying, who hailed from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, was working on the checkout of a Chock Hou store in the Pedregal district of Panama City on August 9 when two males ran in and tried to rob it, Sina.com reported on its news website on Thursday.
In footage taken from the shop’s surveillance cameras, one of the two men can be seen leaping over the counter and pulling Pan by the hair as he tries to get to the cash register. His accomplice, who remains on the other side of the counter, appears spooked by activity in other parts of the store and several times briefly disappears out of shot.
Moments later the two robbers are alerted to something happening outside and flee the store. As they do, a third, armed, male runs into the frame and shoots at Pan and she falls to the floor.
According to the Sina report a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the killing, and police are hunting for three other suspects.
