a 17-year old by the name of Zachary Sam
was trying to steal sneakers from a
person that he made a deal with online
but it didn't work out the way that he
expected it to we have a video showing
what happened it's a little graphic and
difficult to watch so I want to give you
fair warning without said take a look
was supposed to be a normal Craigslist
buy and sell do not in that way a driver
inside that SUV a guy known as Phil a 39
year old father of three who says he
sells tennis shoes off Craigslist just
as a hobby and to provide for his family
he was just gonna do that again this
Friday but it didn't in that way the
teenager you see walking up he thought
was just going to do a simple buy of the
tennis shoes but it didn't end that way
as you see the team got inside that SUV
but inside according to investigators
and members of the drivers family they
say the team pulled a gun on that 39
year old but the gun jammed the team
then grabbed the tennis shoes and ran
off you thought that was the end of this
story well that's where it becomes a
little bit more complicated the team ran
off trying to catch a bus he could not
get the bus but the driver of that SUV
turned around and as you can see at the
top part of your screen ran over that
teenager
Wow well I can't even make the joke okay
tell us what happened big kid so he
miraculously survived but getting hit by
the car severed his arm below the elbow
so authorities were able to find him
basically collapsed in the front yard of
his mother's home he is facing charges
including having an unlawful weapon and
also for you know pulling a gun on this
guy now the man who ran over him is also
facing charges attempted murder charges
and that's where the story gets a little
complicated should the man face
attempted murder charges for what he did
and the lawyer for the man who ran him
over says I don't mean to be harsh but I
think mr. Sam in a case was getting what
he deserved my client is an absolute
victim in this case ya know so it is
complicated first
if I'm the guy in the car who was gonna
get robbed
I am super pissed man that guy put a gun
in my face he could have died that day
at 3 kids so it's not like we got
sympathy for the 17 year old right a
terrible thing to do put that guy's life
in danger
I get why a guy was steaming mad but but
you can't run somebody over for robbing
you it's disproportionate it's you can't
do it right and now attempted murders
obviously a heavy heavy charge but dude
you ran him over it so badly did he it
severed his arm so there's got to be
some charges I don't know if there's
gonna be a jury that's just gonna let
him go anyway right that's entirely
possible if I was on the jury I don't
know that I go to attempted murder but I
go to something man you keep we can't
let you run people over for for robbing
you no matter how pissed we all would be
under the same circumstances
look there's the part of me that wants
that revenge right that wants to be
angry and irrational and wants that
stupid 17 year old to get what's coming
to him right mm-hmm but at the same time
you can't do what's against the law
right the only time that you can attack
someone like that whether it's with a
gun or with a car with any type of you
know weapon that can kill someone is
when that individual poses an imminent
threat and that seventeen-year-old at
that moment didn't pose an imminent
threat yes he had already walked away so
there's what the law says and what we
want to do right and unfortunately well
fortunately or unfortunately we have to
follow the law yeah and look if the guy
the kid whatever you want to call him is
pointing a gun at him and he hits the
gas pedal so he doesn't get a shot we're
not having a discussion about it right
yeah that's self-defense of course but
the car is a deadly weapon here and the
the 17 year olds clearly walking away
that issue is over right now it's
frustrating that it's over you're gonna
call the cops so they're not gonna be
able to find him
well it's gonna you know and I've been
robbed before and the cops didn't even
bother trying to find the guy who did it
and I had his fingerprints get left a
giant handprint on my window like yeah
leads yeah we're working on around the
clock right
so I know how dismissive they can be and
how frustrating it is but if I had found
that guy who robbed my apartment in New
York and I ran him over with my car
that's nuts yeah you can't do that it's
just so frustrating because had the guy
just driven away and he didn't do
anything this 17 year old is free to go
off and do this again
right and when does he get caught right
when does it get to a point where he
actually does shoot and kill someone so
I understand the man's frustrations oh I
don't know it's a difficult story I mean
look let's explain what happened the arm
the surgeons were reportedly able to
reattach Sam's arm which was severed
below the elbow which was found
collapsed outside his mother's home near
nearby after fleeing the scene look dude
when you got to pick up your arm from
the scene and run with it
it's that's why you don't run people
over because you easily could have
killed them and you've maimed him can't
have it we can't have it