A pedestrians walks past Shanghai Taste at 4255 Spring Mountain Road in China Town on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, in Las Vegas. A waiter at the restaurant was shot 11 times and underwent emergency surgery. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Shanghai Taste at 4255 Spring Mountain Road in China Town is seen on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, in Las Vegas. A waiter at the restaurant was shot 11 times and underwent emergency surgery. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Pedestrians walk past Shanghai Taste at 4255 Spring Mountain Road in China Town on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, in Las Vegas. A waiter at the restaurant was shot 11 times and underwent emergency surgery. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
The Las Vegas Metropolitan police officer’s vehicle is parked outside Shanghai Taste at 4255 Spring Mountain Road in China Town on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, in Las Vegas. A waiter at the restaurant was shot 11 times and underwent emergency surgery. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Chengyan Wang, who was shot 11 times at the ShangHai Taste restaurant on Spring Mountain on Dec. 20. (Courtesy Joe Muscaglione and ShangHai Taste restaurant)
Chengyan Wang, who was shot 11 times at the ShangHai Taste restaurant on Spring Mountain on Dec. 20. (Courtesy Joe Muscaglione and ShangHai Taste restaurant)
A waiter at the ShangHai Taste restaurant was critically injured in a shooting early Monday morning, according to the restaurant and Las Vegas police.
The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that police received a call at 2:55 a.m. of an unresponsive man bleeding at the restaurant at 4266 Spring Mountain Road. Officers found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to University Medical Center in “critical but stable condition,” police said.
The restaurant said in a social media post Monday that a man identified as Wang, the restaurant’s lead waiter, had intervened after a “senseless and vicious burglary attempt.” He was shot 11 times and underwent emergency surgery, the post said.
“ShangHai Taste will be closed today and tomorrow as we mobilize all of our sources to be with Wang in support at this time and for the remaining year, we will donate our proceeds to Wang and his family in support,” the post said.
