WhiteKnight
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I would like your advice on the following issue.
My roommate and her boyfriend were robbed this morning.
The story is:
They went into school today around 9am for the teacher workday at my roommate's elementary school. Due to inclement weather (lots of snow for the South), many teachers had opted out of coming to school for the day. My roommate's classroom is a brand new trailer outside the school (and about as far from the school as possible in regards to the property itself). Thus, she and her boyfriend were in relative isolation to the rest of the school, sounds cloaked by falling snow, and essentially powerless against multiple attackers.
The school is in a high-crime, low-income neighborhood (the ghetto) of the city where we live. On this day, my roommate and her boyfriend were working in her trailer organizing/lesson planning/cleaning. Two black guys started pounding on the door, and peeked their heads through the window. They were hollering about "somebody's chasing me with a gun; I need to call the cops." My roommate/bf got an uneasy feeling when they cracked the door, and told them to try the main office. The guys (four of them, actually) started running towards the main office, only to return a few minutes later to say that it was locked up.
My roommate's boyfriend cracked the door to tell the guys neither he or my roommate had a cell phone they could use (this was the pretense that the guys used), and when he did this, they shoved the door open and forced themselves in. Two of them entered, while the other two stood watch outside.
They demanded all of the money from the boyfriend, and said they had a gun and would start shooting if they had to.
They started searching my roommate for jewelry. When the boyfriend's wallet produced only $2 in cash (and the rest in credit cards), they demanded to know where the "real" money was at. In an act of desperation to get them out of the classroom before violence/sexual assault took place, the boyfriend tossed them his laptop computer and told them to leave. They grabbed the charger and ran off. The four black guys were all high-school age.
Despite a police report/K9 unit search/etc, nothing came of the four guys. My roommate's trailer doesn't have internet or phone or intercom access yet, so her only option was their cell phones (which they had already lied about not having in an effort for the guys to leave them alone). Now she's afraid to even be in that trailer because of the emotional memory she has of it.
Any advice on what she should do now (and maybe a two second blurb about what she could have done -- although armchair quarterbacking or bravado is not appreciated).
My roommate and her boyfriend were robbed this morning.
The story is:
They went into school today around 9am for the teacher workday at my roommate's elementary school. Due to inclement weather (lots of snow for the South), many teachers had opted out of coming to school for the day. My roommate's classroom is a brand new trailer outside the school (and about as far from the school as possible in regards to the property itself). Thus, she and her boyfriend were in relative isolation to the rest of the school, sounds cloaked by falling snow, and essentially powerless against multiple attackers.
The school is in a high-crime, low-income neighborhood (the ghetto) of the city where we live. On this day, my roommate and her boyfriend were working in her trailer organizing/lesson planning/cleaning. Two black guys started pounding on the door, and peeked their heads through the window. They were hollering about "somebody's chasing me with a gun; I need to call the cops." My roommate/bf got an uneasy feeling when they cracked the door, and told them to try the main office. The guys (four of them, actually) started running towards the main office, only to return a few minutes later to say that it was locked up.
My roommate's boyfriend cracked the door to tell the guys neither he or my roommate had a cell phone they could use (this was the pretense that the guys used), and when he did this, they shoved the door open and forced themselves in. Two of them entered, while the other two stood watch outside.
They demanded all of the money from the boyfriend, and said they had a gun and would start shooting if they had to.
They started searching my roommate for jewelry. When the boyfriend's wallet produced only $2 in cash (and the rest in credit cards), they demanded to know where the "real" money was at. In an act of desperation to get them out of the classroom before violence/sexual assault took place, the boyfriend tossed them his laptop computer and told them to leave. They grabbed the charger and ran off. The four black guys were all high-school age.
Despite a police report/K9 unit search/etc, nothing came of the four guys. My roommate's trailer doesn't have internet or phone or intercom access yet, so her only option was their cell phones (which they had already lied about not having in an effort for the guys to leave them alone). Now she's afraid to even be in that trailer because of the emotional memory she has of it.
Any advice on what she should do now (and maybe a two second blurb about what she could have done -- although armchair quarterbacking or bravado is not appreciated).
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