By Miranda Andrew
He will not be cowed by criminals. This is the vow of restaurateur Larry Goldberg after the horrific killing of a patron and the shooting of several others at his popular St Tropez restaurant on Saturday evening.
Shocked and mourning the death of customer Marc Joubert and the shooting of other guests and a staff member, Goldberg has vowed that he will continue with his business.
Three other guests and a staff member were wounded in the armed robbery.
Joubert, a Westville builder, was shot and killed after he apparently tried to disarm one of the armed robbers.
Police searched the bloody crime scene on Sunday at St Tropez, a popular sidewalk restaurant at the corner of Essenwood Road and St Thomas Road in Musgrave, Durban, in the hopes of finding any clues to the armed robbery.
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Pandemonium broke out on the restaurant's upper level when six gunmen entered the premises after 10pm sending 60 people, including those celebrating a birthday party at the restaurant, fleeing for cover.
Goldberg has since condemned the vicious crime, saying: "We will not be chased away by ruthless criminals."
"They entered and ran upstairs, where the private birthday party was taking place, and just started blasting away," Goldberg said on Sunday, while police took statements from visibly shaken staffers.
"Everybody just dropped to the floor. While patrons lay on the floor the robbers took cellphones, jewellery and cash."
The police's Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said a patron entering the building "was at the wrong place at the wrong time".
Joubert, 30, entered the restaurant, which is across the street from Durban High School, and was proceeding to the upper level to join the birthday party as terrified patrons ran past him.
"Minutes earlier, there had been a tussle between a few patrons and an intruder upstairs.
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