He obtained his Roc again.
A newly homeless New Yorker was filmed having an emotional reunion together with his finest pal, 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, informed his American Bully pet as PIX11 Information caught their reunion Thursday exterior 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 is just not allowed to stick with him in shelters.
He feared the worst — till the shock information that his stolen canine had been dropped off exterior the stationhouse only a few blocks from Yankee Stadium.
“I need to cry,” Williams informed PIX11 after his reunion. “I do know God is actual, as a result of I’m in an enormous metropolis, and in an enormous metropolis like New York, you realize, 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 will depend on me. I rely on 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 informed the Day by day Information he was dozing on the subway to keep away from the warmth, and “wakened at 205th Avenue with simply the leash in my hand.”
Solely after being proven surveillance footage of the merciless dognapper did he understand 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 realize, making little eyes at him. I paid no consideration,” he stated.
The thief remained on the free early Friday — and it’s not clear if he was the one that dropped Roc exterior the stationhouse.
“If the individual [who] took him determined to carry him again, he did the correct 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.
