RIP John The Jewler

So Alot of yall have heard about Dro Tha Beasts Manager John The Jeweler... Our Condolances go out to Dro, Goldfinger, and Raylo and Johns Family...

Funeral arrangements.....Monday the 2nd at the Gardens memorial park cemetery. Viewing is 1-3 and then funeral is at 3pm. Please note that john would want you to dress casual no need to get all up in a suit.Be your self as he would remember you...Address is 4103 North Military trail Boca Raton Florida.

Every night, John Lauseng would sing to his 5-year-old daughter before she went to bed.

Monday morning, two masked men took that away.

Lauseng, owner of the West Palm Coin & Jewelry Exchange near the corner of Westgate and Congress avenues, was shot twice and killed in an apparent robbery attempt as he was preparing to open his business.

Leah Nerges, a close family friend whose husband, Robert, is Lauseng's business partner, said she started receiving phone calls about the Monday morning shooting from friends asking if her husband was the man murdered.

After finding out that her husband was OK, Nerges was then faced with the task of notifying Lauseng's wife, Tina, who was in Michigan visiting family.

"I'm the one that had to call," said Nerges, who drove to the hospital to check on Lauseng. "What do you say to your best friend?"

Nerges said she first told Lauseng that her husband had been in an accident. "But she was just hysterical," Nerges said. "She just begged me to tell her how bad it was."

Earlier, at the scene, Exzuzious McDaniel said he also received a phone call around 9 a.m. from someone telling him that his friend had been "gunned down."

"A good person got killed. They killed my friend," McDaniel said. "He was like a father to me."

Nerges said Lauseng has two adult sons and a 5-year-old daughter. She didn't give her name.

"I can't imagine how she's going to go to bed," Nerges said. "Daddy sings to her every night.

"She'll be going to kindergarten without her dad," she added.

According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, the two masked men, armed with semiautomatic weapons, followed Lauseng as he was walking in through the back door of the store around 8:30 a.m.

Sheriff's investigators said the two men then forced the 44-year-old Lauseng into the store. But at some point, he ran out the back door in an attempt to escape and was shot in the back and in his arm.

Sheriff's office spokesman Eric Davis said the injured Lauseng crossed the street in search of help but collapsed in a grassy area in front of a Circle K.

He was transported to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, where he died.

Sheriff's investigators were still searching for the two gunman late Monday, as well as a third man they believe was waiting for them in a "dark green, cargo-type box van" with tinted rear windows.

The two armed men got in the van, and it headed north on Congress Avenue. Davis describes one of the two armed men as 6 feet, 1 inch or 6 feet, 2 inches tall, weighing around 220 pounds; and the second man 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing around 130 pounds.

Nerges said that the store had surveillance video from a camera.

"I guess I just gotta believe that God needed him more," Nerges said of Lauseng. "He was a very charitable man. He didn't deserve this."

Also, while the two men were inside the store with Lauseng, she said a store employee was heading in to start the workday.

"(Lauseng) kept saying, 'No! Run! Run!' " Nerges said. "He actually saved somebody else's life but lost his."

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