A Chi­nese restau­rant and bar pro­pri­etor, known for his kind­ness and gen­eros­i­ty, was found bru­tal­ly mur­dered in his busi­ness in Ste Madeleine on Sun­day night, leav­ing the com­mu­ni­ty shocked and sad­dened.

Xhi Li Li, 49, was the own­er of Yue Hua Chi­nese Restau­rant and Bar, lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of Man­a­ham­bre Road and M2 Ring Road. Po­lice be­lieve the killing oc­curred dur­ing a rob­bery. His body was dis­cov­ered around 11.50 pm af­ter a cus­tomer went to the es­tab­lish­ment to make a pur­chase.

Po­lice said the pro­pri­etor typ­i­cal­ly con­duct­ed late-night sales through a small open­ing in the front door af­ter lock­ing up. How­ev­er, when the cus­tomer looked through the open­ing, he no­ticed a large amount of blood on the restau­rant floor be­hind the counter. Alarmed, the cus­tomer went to the near­by Ste Madeleine Po­lice Sta­tion a short dis­tance away and made a re­port.