They tried to rob nan incorrect guy.
One of nan victims successful a spate of robberies successful Central Park fought backmost erstwhile 2 teens — 1 equipped pinch a weapon — tried to mug him connected a stepping way Friday night.
“You don’t person nan balls to sprout me,” he told them, recalling nan frightening incident to The Post.
“I became nan aggressor because I was for illustration ‘You conscionable tried to bargain my phone.’”
“I mightiness conscionable beryllium crazy, but I was like, ‘You’re going to sprout maine complete a phone? You don’t person nan balls to propulsion nan trigger,’” said Ashikur Chowdhury.
Chowdhury, who’s 6’2” and weighs much than 200-pounds, had been retired stepping for overmuch of nan time and was headed location to Harlem erstwhile nan teens tried to drawback nan 25-year-old’s telephone connected nan darkened trail.
“Any reasonable thug wouldn’t situation onslaught me, but they couldn’t beryllium older than 16,” he said.
“I was connected my telephone conscionable looking astatine nan GPS trying to fig retired wherever this motorcycle way was leading…and each of nan abrupt a manus reaches complete and tries to drawback my phone,” he recalled.
“I clutch it, he fails and past he gets retired successful beforehand of maine and is conscionable staring astatine me.”
That’s erstwhile 1 of nan teenagers pulled retired a pistol from his pocket, he said.
“The first feline takes it from his manus and points it up to my look and says ‘Give maine nan phone,'” Chowdhury said, adding that nan teens were speaking Spanish.
He recovered himself reasoning astir his mom and friends.
“I thought astir her,” he said.
“I thought astir my friends, nan group I interact pinch — my siblings, nan kids that I activity pinch each day…and I consciousness fortunate and grateful that he didn’t propulsion nan trigger aliases it was a clone gun.”
Chowdhury, who useful arsenic a kindergarten paraprofessional astatine an Upper East Side school, said his first guidance was to consciousness for nan teens.
“As a teacher, my guidance is benignant of to empathize, like, what are you doing? You’re going to consequence each of this for a phone?” he recalled.
He decided to make a constabulary study successful portion because his older relative is an NYPD lieutenant successful Brooklyn.
“I conscionable thought he’d beryllium disappointed if thing happened to maine and I didn’t do thing astir it,” he said. “I thought, if it happened to me, it could hap to anyone.”
He said he’s disappointed that crime is connected an uptick successful nan iconic park.
“It’s really tragic that crime is backmost connected nan rise, because for a small spot location Central Park was staying retired of nan headlines, and now it’s getting backmost successful location because it’s getting worse,” he said.
“I deliberation I sewage lucky,” he said. “I really deliberation I sewage lucky.”
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