News Writing #2 : Cathedral Robbery

Two Taiwanese tourists were robbed at gunpoint today in St. Mary’s Cathedral parking lot, according to Sgt. Lawrence Price of the San Francisco Police Department.

The victims, WeiMing Chen, 28, and his wife, Li Lu, 30, were robbed at around 10 a.m. when they separated from their tour group to take pictures. Alone and in the cathedral’s lower parking lot they were then approached by a man who threatened them with a gun and demanded their money. Not satisfied with the $100 dollars WeiMing initially handed over, the offender only fled the scene after the couple had also surrendered their passports, camera and airline tickets.

The victims described their assailant, who has not yet been captured by police, as being approximately 18-years-old and wearing a black jacket. Nobody knows if the victims were able to made it back home to Taipei with the rest of their tour group, who were scheduled to leave today at 1 p.m.