Surveillance video from a Michigan gas station/convenience store shows a 12-year-old boy pulling a gun on a clerk and demanding money.
The clerk was incredulous at first until the boy fired a warning shot into the air.
“A 12-year-old boy is in custody after law enforcement said he robbed a gas station of cash and fired off a shot inside Wednesday afternoon in Hartford.
Just before 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 911 dispatchers got a call about an armed robbery at the Marathon gas station at 108 East Main Street, which is just a block from the police station…
Hartford Police Chief Tressa Beltran was returning from a detail and was able to make it to the gas station within 90 seconds of getting that 911 call.
Other officers made it there shortly after.
Chief Beltran spotted the suspect behind some buildings downtown about a block and a half away from the scene of the armed robbery. She took him into custody without incident.
Hartford Lt. Mike Prince says the 12-year-old boy went to school Wednesday and had apparently talked with a classmate about the least secure gas station in town.
The boy went home, changed clothes, got into a parent's gun safe and retrieved a 9mm handgun with two loaded magazines.”
Po-po say the boy made off with $5,000 before he was arrested.
They add that the boy faces a long list of charges, and may be tried as an adult.