© Sam Costanza/NY Daily NewsA police officer secures the handgun (on grass at officer's feet) that was dropped when the robber was struck by the gray SUV (pictured l.) on Avenue M near E. 86th St. in Canarsie.
A robbery victim, who decided to take the law into his own hands by mowing down an armed teen thief, severing his right arm, is now in handcuffs himself, police said.
Police arrested the robbery victim, Philip Pierre, 39, of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, and charged him with attempted murder. The alleged teen thief, Zachary Sam, 17, also of Canarsie, Brooklyn, was charged with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in the Craigslist robbery gone wrong. Both were charged on Friday.
Police sources say the teenager connected with Pierre on Craigslist on Friday. Pierre was selling a pair of Air Jordan sneakers.
They met about 1 p.m. near Avenue M and East 84th Street in Canarsie, where Sam got into Pierre's Honda Pilot SUV and pulled out a gun, a police source said. The teen allegedly stole the Jordan Retro 8 sneakers and walked away.
Sam managed to make it only about 100 yards with the shoes when the driver made a U-turn, stepped on the gas and struck Sam. The teenager was pinned against the fence and his right arm was severed "completely," a police source told PIX11.
"He technically did disarm him," a police source said.
Missing his arm, Sam tried to jump on an MTA bus, where he demanded a MetroCard. Just then, Pierre yanked the teenager off the bus and told the driver he'd robbed him. Then Sam escaped his clutches again and ran home, where he collapsed outside, a police source said.
An ambulance took Sam— and his severed arm — to a Brookdale Hospital. The teen was listed as critical but stable condition. Doctors surgically reattached his arm Friday night, but are not yet sure if the operation was successful, a police source said.
Pierre is expected to appear in court for his arraignment Saturday.
Pierre's relatives said his actions were done in self-defense.
"He was just there to help support his family," Pierre's cousin said. "What would you do if someone pulled a gun on you?"
"He technically did disarm him," a police source said."
Bada-bing!
Still cannot believe that the 'police source' actually did say that. (But I must admit, it did make me laugh out loud.)
And speaking about 'laughing out loud at other's misfortunes'........
It is reported in US news today that monumental right-wing as*hole and legal psychopath deluxe, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, is......... DEAD!
Let me say that again: Justice Scalia is DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!
Thankfully, another unrelenting source of evil and injustice has (finally) been flushed from this world, like the legal titanic turd he was. Hooray!!
(Humble request to Dog: Can Dick "Head" Cheney, and scumbag George Soros follow? Soon? Really, really soon? As in 'immediately'? Please?)
I admit that when I saw the news on Sputnik minutes ago, I pumped my arms and yelled, "YES!!"
Not to say the next idiot that Obomber will nominate to replace the dead dirtbag Scalia will be any better for the American people, of course. They never are, at least not in today's Amerikkka, anyway.
But I was VERY happy to read that Scalia is finally gone. And especially once the article made known that his demise followed shortly after he violently and mercilessly slaughtered small animals all day (pheasant hunting for pleasure, i.e. killing for 'sport'), with the only down-side being that this douche-bag supreme bit the dust in his sleep, peacefully.
One can only pray Dog is a bird, and that Scalia will now be relentlessly hunted for all of eternity, getting his fat ass peppered with buck shot forever and ever, amen.