9-year-old boy viciously robbed has some choice words
The 9-year-old boy who was robbed at a Brooklyn Target store last week had some choice words about the robbers who stole a wad of cash that he had hoped to use to buy a new Xbox.
“They did me dirty,” said 9-year-old David Square, a fourth grader at P.S. 141. “They did me mean, I have nothing [else] to say to them.”
The pair of crooks approached 9-year-old David, who was holding a toy light-saber, at the Target store in the Atlantic Terminal Mall on Flatbush Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Jan. 10.
They started chatting with him before surveillance video captures the duo going down an escalator with their young victim. The suspects lured David by telling him they knew a place where he could get a cheaper Xbox, cops said.
Outside the Target, one of the suspects placed his hand over the boy’s mouth while the other swiped $282 from his pocket before taking off, according to police.
“When the guys ran, I said, ‘Give me my money’ and I was crying,” David said.
A Good Samaritan chased after the suspects into the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center train station, but to no avail, he added.
David’s father, Mohamed Square, said David’s aunt was supposed to pick him up from school — but the boy left before his aunt showed up and started walking toward his great-uncle’s 99-cent store on Lenox Road in Flatbush.
On the way, David spotted the cash-filled envelope on the ground near a car, the dad said. He briefly stayed at his uncle’s store before he snuck out, got on the train and headed to Target, Square said.
Around 6 p.m., cops called Square — who believed his son was still at his great-uncle’s store — and explained what happened.
“It shocked me,” Square said. “I said, ‘I don’t think so.’ I felt terrible. This is the only son I have, we have such a connection.”
David said he was worried at first about how his dad would react.
“[I thought] I was going to get a butt-whipping,” he said. “I was happy to see him. I got a hug. I didn’t say anything to my dad but ‘thank you for picking me up.’”
Square said he’s punishing his son by making him read seven books, and putting a tracker on him to monitor his whereabouts.
“I told him, ‘This is how life is, your life can be gone,'” he said. “I told him he is lucky to be alive.”
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