Newport Beach mall robbery: Shocking final moments of New Zealand mother killed in botched robbery - as details emerge of why her businessman husband was targeted by gun-toting muggers NZ woman Trish McKay died a violent death at California shopping centre Patricia 'Trish' McKay was killed in front of high-profile banker husband Robbers tried to steal his watch, her bag, then ran over her By Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:10 BST, 4 July 2024 | Updated: 04:17 BST, 4 July 2024 e-mail View comments Fresh details have emerged of the final moments of a New Zealand woman who was violently killed in front of her husband at a shopping centre in Newport Beach, California . Patricia 'Trish' McKay was fatally run over by the men who tried to rob her and husband Doug McKay, a former Bank of New Zealand executive and CEO of Auckland council, after the elderly couple was targeted for their pricey belongings. Patricia and Doug were standing outside a Barnes & Noble bookstore at the Fashion Island Mall, which is usually considered a safe location, when two men approached them at about 3.
30 pm on Tuesday to rob them at gunpoint . A 'struggle' ensued and one of the two men fired several rounds from a pistol as he fled the scene on foot. Fellow shopper Dan Sheen said he had been inside the nearby Whole Foods and 'heard some shots ring out as I was walking out'.
He told Morning Report he believed the robbers had initially been trying to steal Mr McKay's watch, before turni.