10-year-old forced to hand over money from piggy bank by knife-wielding thief who followed him home in Brooklyn, police say
A 10-year-old Brooklyn boy was walking home from school on Wednesday when he says he was approached by a man with a knife, who demanded money.
"I said, 'I don't have any money' and he said, 'I know you have money' and I said, 'OK I'm going to give you the money,' so then I started walking and I went into my house and I turned back to look at him, hoping he would just knock it off and go away," said 10-year-old Amir Nur.
Nur said the man approached him, pointed a knife at him and demanded cash.
The boy then told the armed robber he would get the money at home, so the man followed him and waited.
Nur gave the man $20 out of his piggy bank and, thankfully, he left.
"That's why I complied. Because if they have a knife on them, I don't have anything for me. And he's bigger than me and he's taller than me and he has a weapon," Nur said.
As the NYPD began the investigation, Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry decided to step in to replenish Nur's piggy bank, but also gifted him an iPad from the city, as a thank you for his bravery.
"He made the right decision. He was calm under pressure, as you can see, he said he wasn't scared, but he's 10. I'm sure he was a little nervous. I'm just taking an educated guess here that this individual probably has some mental health issues, I would say, because what type of person are you to go and rob a 10-year-old?" Daughtry said.
Nur's mom is also proud of her son, who turns 11 in a few months, but says she's on edge.
"Now I'm just a little hesitant of allowing him to go back and forth unless I'm like right here with him, you know, watching him," the mother of the victim, Nicole Edite, said.
Police are still looking for the suspect.
