 A 68-year-old tourist from New Zealand was struck and killed by a car during a botched robbery at an upscale mall in a popular Southern California beach city south of L.A. Violence broke out Tuesday afternoon at Newport Beach's Fashion Island Mall when two men tried to rob a woman and her husband. Police Sergeant Stephen Oberon. A husband and a wife at Barnes & Noble. They were approached by two suspects, and there was a struggle, and they were robbed.