Baltimore police responded to several troubling incidents involving juveniles this past weekend, including a stabbing at the Inner Harbor and an armed robbery near the Washington Monument.
Caught on camera
WJZ Investigates was the first to obtain video of the armed robbery from Muneeb Butt, the owner of a 7-11 convenience store on North Charles Street in the shadow of the Washington Monument.
The incident unfolded just after 6 p.m. Sunday and showed a teenager threatening Butt’s staff with a hot pink colored weapon.
“One of the guys, he opened the bag, and he had some kind of pinkish gun,” Butt told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren. “They started acting like they’re stealing. They stole the chips and the slushy, and then they started getting aggressive. All of a sudden, they tried to attack one of my cashiers. Then, he tried to protect himself.”
The group smashed his lottery terminal, cash register, and more equipment.
One member of the group even threw a Slurpee.
Butt said there must be consequences for this kind of behavior.
“The problem is they get together as a group, and when they get together as a group, they do some funny things,” the store owner said…