A New York man allegedly pointed at someone in the head of a 6-year-old boy who dropped off a Halloween goody bag with the man and went to retrieve it, police said.
Michael Yifan Wen, 43, of Manhasset, was arrested and charged with menacing and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, Nassau County police said in a statement.
The incident took place Saturday when a mother drove her daughter, 2 sons and nephew to the home on Rockcrest Road. Her 10-year-old daughter and 6-year-old rang the doorbell and dropped off a Halloween goody bag on the porch for the girl’s friend, police said.
When the children returned to the car, the girl told her mother the address had never been incorrect, so they drove back, and the boy went up to the porch to get the bag full of candy, police said.
That’s when the man opened the door and pointed a handgun at the boy’s head, they said.
Police later determined it had been the wrong address.
Wen’s attorney, Roger Blank, said Tuesday that his client is presumed innocent.
«These are just allegations,» I said. Blank aspires to publish sayings in judgment for conclusions “for facts come out.”
Other instances of people mistakenly showing up the wrong man have turned deadly this year:
- On April 13, 84-year-old Missouri man fatally shot a Black teenager who was ringing the doorbell after going to the wrong address.
- Two days later, in New York 20-year-old woman fatally shot in an SUV po friends she was s pulled in wrong driveway in Hebron while looking for party.
- In August, at 20-year-old University of South Carolina, studying the fatally shot from among his man.
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