Instead of getting loot from a stickup, the store owner provided the man with $40 and a loaf of bread, but only if he promised never to rob again.
"This was a grown man, crying like a baby," Mohammad Sohail, owner of the Shirley Express convenience store about 65 miles east of New York City, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
The would-be thief dropped to his knees and begged for forgiveness, Sohail said.
"He started crying that he was out of work and was trying to feed his hungry family," he said. "I felt bad for him. I mean, this wasn't some kid."
While watching the news this morning I heard this wonderful update!
The Shirley convenience store owner who made national headlines in June after surveillance cameras caught him showing mercy to a subdued would-be robber says he lives by a simple rule: "When you do good things, good things come back."
So Mohammad Sohail said he was not surprised when he found a $50 bill and an apology note in the mail Wednesday.
The note said the robber had a new baby, a new job and had turned his life around!
There are so many stories of hate and violence. I thought it was great to hear a good ending for once.
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