Ex-thug repaid deli owner who helped him

[johnnie]

A Long Island deli owner who held a robber at gunpoint, then let him go after giving him $40 and a loaf of bread, says he got an anonymous letter from the crook that included a $50 bill and a thank-you for saving him from a life of crime.

The mysterious writer apologized to his would-be victim, Mohammad Sohail, saying, "First of all I would like to say I am sorry at the time I had money no food on the table no job and nothing for my family."

Similar to comments he made on his knees during the incident last May, he said he realized that trying to rob the store with a baseball bat "was wrong but I had choice. I needed to feed my family."


The letter claimed, "When you had that gun to my head I was 100% that I was going to die," and said he begged to convert to Islam at that moment only because he feared death.

But the letter-writer said he actually did convert, "decided to become a true Muslim," and turned his life around after Sohail, 47, spared his life.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/he_kept_the_change_3mewgRcqMr311EPvag4sjL#ixzz0YgAOinDe

[silverweb]

1. The quality of mercy.

A beautiful story.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It doesn't happen often enough...

The good you do, esp. under terribly adverse circumstances, comes back many times over...

Blessings on that Deli owner!

And on the man who tried to rob him...


Hi, Johnnie!

:hi:

[imdjh]

3. A cynical person would be suspicious of the cair with which this was written.

[Schema Thing]

4. a skeptical person would be skeptical, but proceed cairfully