10-year-old forced to hand over money from piggy bank by knife-wielding thief, police say
CROWN HEIGHTS (WABC) -- A 10-year-old boy was walking home from school on Wednesday when he was approached by a man with a knife who demanded money.
"And 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," Amir Nur said.
Nur was walking home on Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights when he says a man approached him, pointed a knife at him and demanded cash.
Nur said 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 ten. 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 ten-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.
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