He bought his Roc again.
A newly homeless New Yorker was filmed having an emotional reunion along with his finest buddy, his pet canine Roc, 4 days after he was stolen from beside him as he napped on a subway.
“I’m proper right here — come right here, child,” Charles Williams, 45, instructed his American Bully pet as PIX11 Information caught their reunion Thursday outdoors the forty fourth Precinct stationhouse within the Bronx. “Who’s my Roc?”
Williams’ “very loving canine” was stolen from him as he slept on a northbound D practice heading into the Norwood-205th St. station on Sunday morning, he stated.
The canine lover stated he has been homeless for round a month, and was solely sleeping on the practice due to his devotion to his canine, who just isn’t allowed to stick with him in shelters.
He feared the worst — till the shock information that his stolen canine had been dropped off outdoors the stationhouse just some blocks from Yankee Stadium.
“I wish to cry,” Williams instructed PIX11 after his reunion. “I do know God is actual, as a result of I’m in a giant metropolis, and in a giant metropolis like New York, you already know, you might not discover your canine,” he stated, assuming he wouldn’t get him again.
“He’s the one household that I’ve,” he stated. “He’s all I’ve. He is determined by me. I depend upon him, and I really feel like I let him down,” he stated.
“However don’t fear, it’ll by no means occur once more,” he stated, taking a look at Roc.
Williams instructed the Day by day Information he was dozing on the subway to keep away from the warmth, and “awoke at 205th Road with simply the leash in my hand.”
Solely after being proven surveillance footage of the merciless dognapper did he notice that it was a person he had observed earlier sitting throughout from him.
“Roc was sitting below me. [The thief] was taking a look at him, you already know, making little eyes at him. I paid no consideration,” he stated.
The thief remained on the unfastened early Friday — and it’s not clear if he was the one that dropped Roc outdoors the stationhouse.
“If the individual [who] took him determined to deliver him again, he did the precise factor,” Williams stated.
The NYPD has shared a picture of the suspect, a person in his 20s with medium-length braids, all-black clothes and a black Yankees cap.
