Benny Da Jeweler, who has worked with Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj and Usher was held at gunpoint and robbed of an estimated $1 million in jewelry in Manhattan's Diamond District.
Glass panels surrounding the escalator bank had been removed and a crane was hauled inside the store to create a makeshift freight elevator for the car.
Three men burst into the store, where the 59-year-old victim was working, on Junction Boulevard near 37th Avenue in Corona around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and snatched up assorted jewelry, police said.
The couple’s daughter, Dr. Priyanka Wali, said in a Facebook post the man who assaulted her father said in Spanish to his accomplice “take it from her” when talking about her mother’s purse.