Manhunt for gunman as Tsim Sha Tsui watch shop worker fights for life after robbery

This is the man Hong Kong police are believed to be hunting in connection with a HK$5.5 million armed robbery at a luxury watch shop which left an employee fighting for his life. The shop worker was injured on Thursday night when the "calm and savage" robber shot him in the chest as he tried to stop him fleeing the Tsim Sha Tsui scene.

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A suspected gunman, wearing a surgical mask and a wig, posed as a customer when he talked to staff in the watch shop in Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Published: 11:04pm, 12 Mar 2015Updated: 10:56am, 15 Jun 2018

This is the man Hong Kong police are believed to be hunting in connection with a HK$5.5 million armed robbery at a luxury watch shop which left an employee fighting for his life.

The shop worker was injured on Thursday night when the "calm and savage" robber shot him in the chest as he tried to stop him fleeing the Tsim Sha Tsui scene.

The "well-dressed" robber got away with HK$5.5 million worth of goods in what is the first shooting during a robbery in Hong Kong in more than a decade.

The employee, 57, who was not named, was shot while trying to stop the thief leaving the store on Peking Road. He was conscious when taken to hospital and reportedly underwent an operation.

Police are now searching for the robber, described by one source as “calm and savage”, and who was said to be about 1.6 metres tall, a Putonghua-speaker and well-dressed, in a silver-grey suit with white sports shoes. He wore a surgical mask on his face and staff believed he was also wearing a wig.