MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Several people were robbed at gunpoint as two separate children’s birthday parties were winding down in Hickory Hill this weekend.
“They had a gun with them, so he couldn’t do anything,” said one of the victim’s daughters. “He says he was scared, because they were holding the gun to his head. He thought they were going to shoot him.”
Out of fear, she asked us to hide her and her father’s identities as she translated for her dad.
He said he was just cleaning up after his 4-year-old son’s birthday party Saturday night when two strangers approached him in his backyard.
“They caught my dad by surprise, and he was sitting down at a chair,” she said. “As they came in the entrance, they pulled him down by the shirt, telling him to get back on the ground. Pointing the gun at his face.”
The man told police he couldn’t move as he watched the men take his cash and cellphones.
“We had a computer set up with speakers and some party lights. They took that too,” she said.
The robbers then reportedly went to another Hickory Hill home four miles away on Jasmine.
Neighbors, who didn’t want to go on camera, told WREG the victims had a child’s birthday party on Saturday, too.
It was apparently winding down when two men told police they were robbed at gunpoint in the front yard.
Police said during the string of robberies, one item the robbers took was an iPhone.
It had the Find My iPhone app on it, which helps users track their phone if they are lost.
The victim activated the app, and police said they tracked the stolen phone to a house on Morgantown.
They arrested Dexter Hurd on aggravated robbery and aggravated assault.
No one at the home wanted to tell WREG what happened, only that Hurd didn’t live at that home.
Hurd is locked up on a $100,000 bond, and is due in court next week.
No word on where the other suspect is or who he is.
