The View' Assistant Shot, Family Caned at a New York Deli For Allegedly Taking Too Long to Order

Lourdes Guillen and her cousin Juan Medina were both shot at a New York deli yesterday after allegedly taking too long with their order.

Guillen, who worked for "Good Morning America" and Anderson Cooper before becoming a production assistant on "The View," says she and her cousin were celebrating his last day in the city when the late-night altercation occurred.

When asked to describe exactly what happened, Guillen said that three men in their twenties started fighting with her group, impatient with the waiting, before one of the men asked why Medina's arms were crossed over his chest.

Guillen responded that her cousin was just a little cold, since he is from the Dominican Republic.

“You’re on my block now,” the man retorted angrily, before departing with his group.

The trio soon returned, however, armed with a cane and a gun.

Almost immediately they attacked Medina and another of Guillen's cousins, beating them with their fists and the cane before shooting Medina twice.

“Put the gun down. Don’t be that person,” Guillen implored, telling the New York Post, “I knew that if my cousin got shot again, he would die."

The gunman allegedly responded, “Don’t think I won’t shoot you too, b---h!” before firing at her stomach.

“I was trying to talk him out of it, because if he saw I was a woman, he would stop. But clearly, that didn’t faze him at all," Guillen recalled.  “I fell down against a car next to my cousin...I wasn’t bleeding. It wasn’t painful. It was just obstructing my breathing."

Then, she says: “I told my [other] cousin to put pressure on Juan’s wound because he was bleeding.”

After that, the pair just "held hands and hung in there until the ambulance came."  Medina is in critical condition after a four hour surgery, and Guillen is expected to recover.

The assailants reportedly fled to one of the nearby housing projects after the attack, and police are investigating the shootings.