A normal, if unfortunate, New York City subway robbery and assault took on a possibly ironic twist this week when a man was robbed for jewelry that a witness said was fake.
The shared the story of the incident that took place on Wednesday (Nov. 4) at a subway station in the Bronx. A 25-year-old man was accosted by two men who tried to rob him. The three struggled, and the victim got shot in the leg. He was sent to a nearby hospital and, per the paper, is “expected to survive.”
But the more notable part of the story came from a witness the Daily News interviewed, Malcolm Williams. He was insistent that the jewelry the victim was wearing was, as he put it, “fugazi.”…