The owner of a Queens cellphone store who tried to fend off two armed robbers was shot in both legs Friday before they fled, police said.
Kunwarjee Singh, 40, was managing a store at Top-in-Town Wireless on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria when the gunman burst in around 6:45 p.m., police said.
Singh resisted and the robbers shot him in both legs, police said, before grabbing his Rolex watch and fleeing on a scooter.
After the gunman fled, Singh called his brother to tell him what had happened.
“He called me and said, ‘There were two of them. I got shot,’ and then the phone hung up,” said 48-year-old Gurpreet Singh. “My brother is a very tough boy. We deal with a lot of crazy people. My brother is not the kind of person who gives in easily, he doesn’t let people rob him.”
Medics transported the victim to Elmhurst General Hospital in stable condition.
“His wife is in the hospital and said he is currently undergoing surgery,” the victim’s brother said. “We were going to eat together. It’s my son’s 13th birthday.”
