Video captures posse of NYC young teens robbing victim with box-cutter: cops

Video exhibits a posse of apparently younger teenagers method a sufferer in The Bronx on Tuesday earlier than considered one of them holds a box-cutter to his neck and the others punch, kick and rob him, police mentioned.

The violent mugging of the 19-year-old sufferer occurred round 9 a.m. at the nook of Saint Ann’s Avenue and East 156 Avenue, cops mentioned.

One of many suspects “approached him with a field cutter and put it to his neck,” a police spokesman mentioned. 

The mugger’s accomplices then acquired in on the motion, punching and kicking the sufferer and swiping his Apple IPhone XR and pockets containing a Chase bank card, authorities mentioned. The suspects then fled.

The sufferer refused medical consideration.

The New York Metropolis Police Division is asking for the general public’s help find the suspects.

Video exhibits a gaggle of younger teenagers method a sufferer in The Bronx on Tuesday earlier than considered one of them holds a box-cutter to his neck.

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Anybody with data in regard to this incident is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The general public may also submit their ideas by logging onto the CrimeStoppers web site at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.