The 49-year-old man wasn’t giving in to the teenage crook.
AKRON, Ohio - A group of neighbors came together to take down a teenage robber in Akron.
Akron police said a 49-year-old man was just sitting in his car on Roslyn Avenue when a 16-year-old came up to his window with a gun and demanded money.“It’s an emergency!” a panicked caller told a 911 operator. The phone call came from a neighbor on Roslyn Avenue a little before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, after gunshots rang out on her block.
Police said he wrestled the gun away from the teen suspect, and that’s when other neighbors ran outside to help him, and together, they held the teen on the ground until police showed up. During the struggle, the gun went off and the bullet hit a nearby house - but thankfully - no one was hurt.“I’m in the house,” said the neighbor. “They came running in the house and said somebody outside had a gun. I heard the gunshots. My brother-in-law ran in the house and said get down, get down they got a gun. He just came back in the house and said he took the gun from whoever was out there.
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