Police say a nine-year-old boy in Union County, North Carolina, was robbed at gunpoint while working a lemonade stand Saturday.
The boy was not harmed and police believe the suspect rode a bike to woods by the stand, then ditched the bike before approaching the stand on foot.
Fox 46 reports that the Union County Sheriff’s Office (UCSO) responded to a robbery call around 3 pm. Deputies indicated “that a teenager walked up to a lemonade stand, stuck a gun to a nine-year-old boy’s stomach and demanded money.”
USCO’s Tony Underwood said, “I think people are capable of a lot of things, but not robbing a child at a lemonade stand, that takes it to a new level.”
The nine-year-old’s father, Philip Smith, said, “Never had an incident like this, never thought this would happen.” He added, “It’s pretty low, despicable in my book and I can’t believe someone would stoop that low to steal money from him.”
Fox News reports that the suspect was described as “a black male teen wearing a camouflage hat and black shirt.” While searching the wooded area by the stand law enforcement found “the hat, black BB handgun,” and the metal tin container in which the nine-year-old boy kept proceeds from lemonade sales.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
COMMENTS
Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting.