Terrifying moment gunmen hold up family in Georgia restaurant and tell owner’s kids that they are going to ‘kill their daddy’ if he doesn’t open the cash register
- John Nop owns the Boston Fish Market in Clayton County – an establishment that has only been open for a few months
- The shift had been going normal on Saturday evening until approximately 8pm when two gunmen stormed in
- They forced the father to open up a safe and a cash register
- One of Nop’s four children tried to protect their father, prompting the robbers response
A group of armed robbers allegedly told a Georgia restaurant owner’s family that they were going to kill their daddy during the a Saturday night father, the traumatized father shares.
John Nop owns the Boston Fish Market in Clayton County – an establishment that has only been open for a few months.
He explained to WSB-TV that the shift started out normal but things took a turn for the worse around 8pm.
John Nop owns the Boston Fish Market in Clayton County – an establishment that has only been open for a few months
‘I looked up. All I saw was the barrel in my head,’ Nop said. ‘(They came) straight up on me and just pulled a gun in my face.’
The father shared that one of the men ordered his men to lay on the floor as the other strolled in holding a gun.
‘He asked me to take them to the safe. I said, “I don’t know where it is.” They said, “You’re the owner, you know where it is,”‘ Nop said.
Nop explained that one of the men then took him to a back room, adding that the robber ‘made me open the safe for them, had the gun to my face. They said, “You go open for me.’
The robbers emptied the safe and then ordered Nop to open the cash register. One of his four children jumped up to help their father at that moment.
‘”I’m going to kill your daddy,”‘ the armed robber reportedly said to Nop’s children. ‘It’s horrible, they’re traumatized.’
Nop’s wife, Phirun Khoun, added: ‘I’m very scared and frightened for my family and anyone else here.’
The couple called for increased police patrol in the area and also said that there was not enough lights around the side and back of their restaurant.
Surveillance footage shows the suspects walking around the building, prior to the holdup.
‘We are helpless here, and we’re trying to get as much help as we can because this place need to be more safe,’ Khoun said.