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A 21-year-old man credits the power of prayer for saving his life after he is robbed at gunpoint while walking home from a bus stop after work.
“He stopped me. He said ‘Aye bruh’ and I turned around and he pulled out a gun and said ‘gimme everything you got,” said Shaquille Hairston, of Euclid.
It was around 3:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, when Hairston had just gotten off a bus near East 185th Street and Lakeshore Boulevard at the Cleveland/Euclid border, after finishing his shift at a downtown Cleveland hotel. Hairston said a man who walked off the bus with him, followed him all the way to East 222nd Street in Euclid before demanding his wallet and cell phone.
“I told him, I was like, I don’t have anything. I really don’t have anything and he took the gun; he swung and he hit me in my head really hard and I had a bump right here on my head,” he said.
According to a Euclid police report, the bus stop at East 185th is the closest stop to the victim’s home at that time in the morning. He said he was close to home when the man robbed him.
“He raised the gun up and he was like ‘I’ll shoot you. I’m not playing with you, man.’ I’m just like, so ‘ok,” said Hairston.
The victim said he handed over his wallet and phone, then began to pray out loud. He said he regularly attends New Direction Church of God in Christ in Cleveland.
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