Jesus Pendant Robbery Shooting Thwarted

After yesterday's story of a yarmulke robbing stopped by possible karma (carma?), the Post has another tale of fate stepping in to stop an East Village robbery from going worse.

Rafael Nunez was on East 13th Street near Avenue B two weeks ago when two men attacked him in order to steal his "$8,000 gold chain and diamond- encrusted medallion of Jesus." They beat and pistol-whipped Nunez, who tried to fight back. They got the chain but dropped it, and when Nunez reached for it, one of the robbers took out a gun and pressed it to Nunez's face.

The gunman pulled the trigger twice, but the gun jammed, so Nunez ran. The police arrested 18-year-old Ashford Pyle for first- and second-degree robbery; his accomplice is still at large. Nunez said, "I feel very happy - and lucky - that [the gun] didn't go off."

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By Jen Chung in News on March 21, 2008 11:57 AM

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Jerky

With a name like Ashford Pyle, it sounds like he should be playing badminton at the country club, rather than being ghetto trash. Too bad, since he'll be getting a mandatory minimum of 5 years, hopefully 25 if he's lucky.

Guest

"What sorta mezzo-finookio name is Ashford Pyle?"

Maybe he's related to Gomer.

Goomba

You mess with Jesus and you go to hell. What sorta mezzo-finookio name is Ashford Pyle?

Muscley Armed Paper Boy

Offbalance:

The generation born in the 1990's aren't all awful; this is just the ghetto trash, who weren't raised properly by their ghetto trash parents. The kind of kids who didn't graduate high school and all think they won't get caught for their street crimes. The kind that wear those awful jackets with colorful symbols and dollar signs on their jacket. Yuck.

Offbalance

Yesterday they grab the East Village rapist, and he's 19. Today's criminal scumbag is 18. Most of the arrests for similar crimes seem to be around the same age group.

I really hope the generation of kids who were born in the 1990s aren't as awful as they appear to be.

Rocknrope

@chris,

Nice one. It would have been better if the robber pulled the trigger and a little flag popped out.

ed_Extinct

two lessons learned:

1. do not waste your money on an 8K gold/diamond necklace

2. gangsters are stupid. they never clean dem guns.

JacqueMehoff

get rid of that nickel-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

chris

Sounds like the island isn't done with him.

Novanglus

Glad this guy lived to tell the tale, but I have to say that it's funny how many streets guns out there jam because criminals don't know how to clean or maintain a gun.

Papercutninja

If anything proves your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, it's an $8,000 diamond-studded gold pendant of Jesus. I could swear there was a clause about idolatry....