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Posted on 09/11/2007 8:27:11 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
A robbery suspect was shot and killed by his would-be victim inside an Oakland Park clothing store Monday night.
About 7:30 p.m., a silent hold-up alarm was detected at the Corner Urban Wear store at the Buglewood Plaza on Oakland Park Boulevard. Moments later, a 911 call was received indicating that a shooting had occurred at the same location.
Broward Sheriff's Office deputies responded and found Hung Nguyen, 17, of Lauderhill, shot to death inside the store.
The store clerk, who remained at the scene and cooperated with authorities, told deputies two men entered the store armed with guns and intended to rob the place. The clerk said he pulled out a handgun and shot one of the men. The second man fled on foot.
Deputies, K-9 units and a BSO helicopter searched the area for more than two hours but could not locate the other attempted robber. He is considered to be armed and dangerous.
He is considered to be armed and dangerous.
So should the clerk be.
I suspect he's not a suspect anymore.
Don’t be too sure.
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I am familar with the area. This is a really bad neighborhood (hookers, druggies, and other miscreants) so you better be armed. Thumbs up to the store clerk and to the owner for having the balls to open a place in this nabe.
This is a really bad neighborhood (hookers, druggies, and other miscreants)What's so bad about that? *Ehem*, sorry...
The funny thing was that, for many years, the main hooker/druggie hangout in Fort Liquordale was Commercial Boulevard, which is where the POLICE DEPARTMENT was/is headquartered! After they cleaned up Commercial to build the Performing Arts Center (guess the cops got sick of getting bribed, er, solicited on the way to work), Oakland Park become “the boulevard of broken dreams.”
The victim was Vietnamese. I had a friend in high school with that last name.
Armed robbery's a b!tch in Florida.
Now the victim has to live with this the rest of his life.
You will find the history of the Nguyen dynasty very interesting reading .
It’s not really that bad, but it’s teetering. All of the store fronts in the strip shopping center where it happened are rented to respectable businesses, as are all the other strip malls along this part of Oakland Park Blvd.
The areas you’re thinking of are mostly further south and west, Sunrise Blvd on the east side from around Holiday Park west past, or to the Turnpike and Broward Blvd from east of 95 to west of 441.
The residential neighborhoods flanking this part of Oakland Park Bvld range from quite nice through black and latin working class to the hood along 31st Ave, in the checkerboard pattern common to S. Florida.
Our recently plea-bargained felon ex-sheriff Jenne didn’t help things with his years of cooked crime statistics and our PC, tourism obsessed, NY originating, Broward County Commission denying there are any problems at all drive us locals crazy, but we don’t need any exaggeration either.
Yes, you can see the occasional hooker, druggie or wino along Oakland as far as the Beach and urban yute with attitude is in every big city.
I personally practice situational awareness and a running threat assessment where ever I am and of course am always armed with a folder and a piece. But that’s been true where ever I’ve been for at least 25 years.
You’re thinking of Broward Blvd for the Ft Lauderdale Police Dept and the Arts and Science District is down around 2nd Ave and Broward, the PD being a little further west.
Commercial isn’t as bad as it once was though.
“with a folder and a piece”
Color me stupid but what does that mean?
I spent my final three of high school in Boca (where my parents still live) and then another three (99-02) in Miami. Most of my impressions are gathered from my car, and Oakland Park seemed rather sleazy, though not as bad as say, the northern 'hood of West Palm Beach (which had the highest crime rate in the state when I lived there) or the NW 79th Street corridor in M-D county.
There used to be a great Uruguayan steakhouse on Oakland Park, but it closed about six years ago. :-(
A folding knife with a razor edged 4.5” blade and a concealable handgun of at least .38, usually .45 caliber!
That’s all right, I live and work in this area and am constantly concerned I’ll lose a bundle if prices slide more than I expect, so I’m probably a little tetchy (or tetched as some have imputed).
I’ve lived here since ‘72, graduated from Creek in’77. Hated it for years, Midwestern born and raised in small town, tall corn country.
Eventually got to root hog or die and dealt with it.
I actually missed Florida’s endless blue skies when I was in Germany for three years of low clouds and gray skies, now I miss the German beer, broads and my misspent youth ;)
Ah, food, we still have some great restaurants here that’s for sure. I miss the old Forbidden City that stood at Oakland and 31st, great Chinese food and a real character of a maitre d’ , an ancient Chinese man that ran the place like a patriarch and dispensed wonderful food and horrible puns.
There’s a pretty good Argentine place over on Federal, north of Sample, I’ll check for the name and get back to you. A little theatrical, waiters dressed like gauchos with the flappy pleated pants, high boots and such, but they carry skewers of meat and carving knives around, etc.
Their salad bar has to be the best I’ve ever seen, great wheels of cheese at one end, all high quality, fresh stuff.
And then there’s the floor show, ie., the Latinas. When the ladies dress to kill they mean it! Gorgeous women dressed to the nines.
Then there’s Milano’s, a little store front Argentine-Italian bakery/carneceria on University, north of Mcnab, another place with great food...I could go on (loquacity, thy name is mine) but I have to run.
A lot of times police will enforce laws against solicitations only within certain areas. Or rather, they’ll have one area that they enforce less, to keep the prostitutes corralled in a manner of speaking, so they know where they’re operating and know where to go to make arrests.
Did you by chance go to PJP II?
Lived in Woodfield Country Club on Yamato Road. Parents sold the house after we left and are now in Long Lake Palms on Clint Moore. This is probably more information than you needed, but there you go.
Abt 20 years back; on Powerline across from Rinkers @ 7/11. A Deputy Sheriff shot a perp that tried to hold up store. The trouble with the perp’s plan was BSD had staked out the store plus many more in NW Ft. Laud. Perp never robbed again.
It was a loooong time ago, but seemed to me like everyone in Viet Nam was named Nguyen.
Maybe he was stealing money for bus fare. :)
Half of Viet Nam has that last name.
I carried a piece illegally in FL and several other states for many years before the FL shall issue permit law was passed. I traveled the southeast as a factory rep, and I often found myself in places and situations where I didn't want to be found cold and stiff the following morning.
Way back then I had never heard the old saying about being tried by 12 instead of carried by six, but that saying exactly matches the way I felt about it at the time. And still do for that matter, although I can now carry legally in both GA and many other reciprocating states states thanks to shall issue CCW laws.
So he tried to rob a clothing store, eh? Did he take a .38 Regular or was he more like a .40 Regular?;)
The Argentinian place sounds like a hoot, especially for a date. Please do get the name, I think I’ll give the place some business. Even if the steaks are just average, a little over the top entertainment is worth a drive.
I believe it’s called Rodrigo’s or something like, will double check and post again soon.
PS, there isn’t actually a floor show but the Latinas really go in for the clothes; spike heels, Charo-like wriggling rumps encased in skin tight dresses, miles of cleavage...Friday or Saturday nights are best.
I figured as much, but if the food is good, the atmosphere would make the evening memorable.
If you had TWO Viet friends in high school who were not related, then surely one would have been a Nguyen.
I did have two Vietnamese friends in high school.
(both were cute)
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