Bystanders, shop owner who took on knifeman at Hong Kong fast-food shop earn praise from witnesses
- Five people, including suspect, were hurt at a Fairwood restaurant in Sha Tin’s Shui Chuen O Plaza on Wednesday
- 43-year-old male attacker, armed 30cm kitchen knife, has record of mental illness, source says
Passers-by and a shop owner who grabbed what they could to fight off a man armed with a knife in a Hong Kong fast-food shop have been hailed as heroes.
Lui King-hoi, the owner of 138 Shoes, next to the fast-food shop run by the Fairwood chain, said on Thursday he acted on instinct.
“I did not think about it much,” he told the Post. “All I wanted to do was to help and stop the attacker from hurting other people.”
Lui, 37, along with several others, helped to subdue a 43-year-old man alleged to have wounded the Fairwood’s woman cashier with a 30cm (12 inch) knife.
He said he heard screams from the restaurant and spotted the suspect brandishing a knife
Lui added he ran out of the shop to join others to tackle the man with whatever improvised weapons they could find.
“There was a middle-aged man with a trolley, someone else was holding a ladder, another person and I were holding the aluminium wet floor sign, a Fairwood employee was holding a metal hook,” Lui said.
