It happened so fast: 8 armed suspects clear out jewelry store [Video]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) – One of the oldest jewelry stores in Oakland, California, is picking up the pieces after a brazen armed robbery.

It is the worst robbery the family-owned business has experienced in more than 40 years of operation and the thieves struck right in the middle of the day.

The chaos and terror that unfolded at Phuong Jewelry in Oakland’s Chinatown is unlike anything the business has ever experienced in its more than 40 years of operation.

“It happened so fast,” Tony Trinh said.

In surveillance video, Trinh’s 69-year-old mother Diana is seen ducking for cover and screaming for help and eight people smash nearly every single case.

“We’ve been robbed a few times before but not at this level of brazen magnitude. Eight individuals and two getaway cars and guns drawn,” Trinh said.

With no security guard on duty at the time, her 76-year-old husband comes storming in wielding a firearm which scares the …