Beloved Tahoe Park Donut Shop Burglarized Thanksgiving Morning

SOUTH SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A beloved Tahoe Park donut store is cleaning up the messiness aft burglars smashed done the backmost doorway and cleared the alteration drawer aboriginal Thanksgiving morning.

Beng Ly-Kok, proprietor of Village Express Donuts, said erstwhile helium got to enactment Thursday morning, helium noticed the lights wouldn’t crook on. That’s erstwhile helium saw the backmost doorway successful pieces connected the floor. Ly tells CBS13 burglars flipped the breakers and broke information cameras, perchance destroying each video evidence. CSI was connected the country this morning, dusting for imaginable fingerprints.

Instead of being angry, Ly spent his greeting thanking his customers and his community. We’ll archer you astir the large mode Tahoe Park stepped up to assistance contiguous connected @CBSSacramento pic.twitter.com/xRBzONrOPh

— Molly Riehl (@MollyRiehl) November 25, 2021

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The incidental comes 3 weeks aft Village Express Donuts had its beforehand windows smashed in, costing the donut store much than $2,000.

“He’s got insurance,” says Isaac Gonzalez, President of the Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association, “but you know, security doesn’t screen your time, your deductible, your spirit.”

Following that incident, neighbors voluntarily bought supplies and boarded up windows for Ly. One idiosyncratic anonymously sent $600 successful the message to assistance wage for caller windows.

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Tahoe Park stepped up again this greeting to rally astir Ly and his donut shop. Some regular customers returned with a donut container filled with bags of coins, cash, and apples. On the box, they wrote, “Thank you! We anticipation you person a blessed and amended day! God Bless You!”

Customers accidental their enactment is simply a reflection of Ly’s kindness to the assemblage done the years. Gonzalez tells CBS13, “When idiosyncratic comes successful and possibly they forgot to enactment currency successful their pocket, he’ll conscionable springiness them a donut.”

Ly says helium hasn’t raised his prices successful much than 20 years due to the fact that what the assemblage gives backmost to him means overmuch much than 5 to 10 cents present and there. He says done pugnacious times, his connection to the assemblage is, “When you bash thing benignant to anybody, the kindness ne'er dies.”

Even though his Thanksgiving started with a burglary, Ly tells CBS13 helium is inactive thankful for his community.

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Sacramento Police accidental they are inactive investigating the incident.