Memphis, Tenn. — A man was locked up and accused of robbing a wheelchair-bound teenager in his front yard.
“I was shocked,” Deandray Hall said. “I was like what’s going on?:”
Hall was caught off guard and thought he was going to die.
The 17-year-old lives life in a wheelchair every day and said he was having trouble making it up his icy driveway at Bitter Creek Saturday night when a group of boys appeared out of nowhere.
“I ain’t see them coming. They came up behind me,” Hall remembered.
Police said the Bolton High School student was robbed.
“He said give me your phone,” Hall said.
Officers reported the robber pulled out a gun and pushed it up against Hall’s body.
“It felt like it was going to go off and shoot me,” Hall explained. “I was like if I don’t give it to him, he might kill me.”
The teenager said he handed over the phone but not before recognizing the suspect as “Chicago”.
Chicago is the name police said people know Niem Boyd as on the streets.
According to an affidavit, Boyd took off running with the phone and eventually came back when police called his number.
Boyd was arrested and thrown in jail.
Hall was left wondering how anyone could target someone in a wheelchair and prayed it never happens again.
“I hope — I hope it don’t happen no more. Like this be it,” Boyd said.
