Kids’ Lemonade Stand In Boston Robbed At Gunpoint By Masked Suspects: ‘you Shouldn’t Really Do That’

The Boston community is reeling aft 2 kids were robbed astatine gunpoint while stationed astatine thier their lemonade stand.

The stand, tally by 2 siblings successful South Boston, was robbed Wednesday day by 2 suspects who stay astatine large, according to nan Boston Police Department. One of nan suspects flashed a gun that was successful his waistband earlier they took disconnected pinch nan kids’ rate box, constabulary said.

David Byrne, 12, told CBS Boston he and his 11-year-old sister were moving nan guidelines erstwhile 1 of nan suspects snatched nan rate container and “showed america nan gun.”

“My sister, she put her hands up, and I said, 'You tin person it.’ But aft that, I was a small irritated because we were 12 and 11, and you shouldn't really do that,” he added.

Investigators shared surveillance photos that look to show nan masked suspects moving pinch a pinkish container aft nan robbery. Police besides posted a short video that shows them stepping successful nan area astir nan clip of nan incident.

Police person not made immoderate arrests and nan suspects are still chartless arsenic of Friday morning, Sgt. Detective John Boyle told The Independent the lawsuit remains nether progressive investigation.

Jennifer Byrne, nan kids’ mother, told 7 News Boston she learned astir nan robbery while she was astatine work.

“They called me, I’m astatine work. They’re panic and say, ‘Someone conscionable came pinch a weapon and took each our money,” she recalled.

Their father, David Byrne, added: “It was heartbreaking, it was chilling. I was honestly like, ‘this can’t beryllium real.’”

Now, nan organization is showing up to support nan kids.

Nicole and Jonathan Raukohl, friends of nan Byrne family, told CBS Boston they’re organizing a lemonade waste for nan vicinity to raise money for a section weapon unit prevention organization. The siblings’ friends besides helped them overgarment a caller lemonade guidelines aft nan robbery.

"I'm angry, I'm angry that this happened successful this organization that we love. We're not conscionable going to fto that happen, this is safe spot usually and for this to hap is incredibly sad,” Nicole Raukohl told CBS Boston.

"It's safe, it's nosy and they virtually do this each day, and this is 1 point that happened. So of people it's awful, right, but we want them to cognize we're not going to extremity them playing connected nan street, we're not going to extremity them hanging retired pinch nan kids around,” Jonathan Raukohl added.