COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Police have arrested two men after a teenager left school for lunch and was robbed in his neighborhood.
Now, the victim’s family wants to help others avoid similar crimes.
Robert Woody, 16, has a cut on his cheek and a head injury after being attacked a few blocks away from his school.
He left Focus Learning Academy on Southwood Avenue to get a drink during a lunch break with two acquaintances and said he was assaulted and robbed.
“There, you know, was two of them. One tried to hit me. I hit him, knocked him out in the corner. Other dude busted me upside the head with a glass bottle and the old dude got recovered and put me up in a choke hold and put a knife to my throat,” Woody said.
Woody said the knife was the only reason he gave up.
“The gentleman had hit him in the face and shattered his glasses and they’re destroyed…He is legally blind with his glasses –- completely blind without,” said Teresa Buzzard, Woody’s mother.
Police said a $3,000 ring was taken along with an iPod, but Woody and his mother said they refuse to live in fear.
“If you live in fear, then the perpetrator’s won. If you rise above it and be successful, then you win,” Buzzard said.
Woody had previously dropped out of high school, but promised his mother he would graduate. He said he will still honor that commitment.
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