Business Owner Pistol-Whipped, Robbed in Broad Daylight in Los Angeles
Two masked assailants attacked a businessman in the city's Fashion District, stealing his watch in a brazen daylight robbery captured on surveillance video.
A business owner was pistol-whipped and robbed of his watch by two masked assailants in Los Angeles's Fashion District on Wednesday, October 21. The incident occurred around 3:15 p.m. on East 12th Street.
Surveillance footage shows two men, dressed in black, emerging from a black sedan and confronting the owner, Ronan Vered, as he stood in his store's doorway. The video depicts one of the assailants brandishing a gun and striking Vered repeatedly in the head. The attackers then forcibly removed a watch from Vered's wrist before fleeing the scene in the same vehicle.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed responding to a robbery report involving a victim in his 50s whose watch was stolen. While authorities did not immediately provide a value for the stolen timepiece, reports indicate it was a Rolex valued at approximately $50,000.
Police have issued a bulletin describing the suspects as two Black males wearing black clothing, who fled in a black sedan. The investigation is ongoing, and no suspects have been identified or apprehended. Motives for the attack have not been released.