Foiled Robber Leaves Store With $40, Bread

A man approached a Long Island convenience store counter with a baseball bat, demanding cash; the shop owner whipped out his shotgun, prompting the man’s tearful pleas for mercy. The impassioned display worked, Newsday reports: Mohammad Sohail took pity on the robber and gave him $40 and a loaf of bread. “He was saying: 'I have no money. I have no food. I have no job. I have to take care of my family,’” Sohail said.

Sohail told the man never to make another robbery attempt. Seeing the shopkeeper’s compassion, the man said he “wanted to be a Muslim just like me,” Sohail said. They prayed together, then Sohail said “'Congratulations. You are now a Muslim and your name is Nawaz Sharif Zardari,’” he told CNN. Police are looking for the man, but Sohail isn’t pressing charges. He says he understands the man’s plight.
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