Two students defy knife-wielding robber

Two CVHS students narrowly avoided an armed robbery just a block from campus on Feb. 3.

Christian Supriano was walking home after school.  He was passing by Bonfaire when a suspicious boy approached him, pulled out a folding knife, and demanded Supriano to turn over everything that he had, he said. Supriano stepped aside and told the robber no.

The robber then left Supriano and walked to another student, Chad Andrews, the boys said. When it was obvious that Andrews wasn’t willing to give up his phone, the robber tried to stab Andrews with his folding knife but missed and ran across the street, the boys said.

“I was just walking when a guy came up and tried taking my phone,” said Andrews.

“I was really scared but I’m glad I made it out okay,” Supriano confessed.

As the robber confronted the other student, Supriano ran into the Bonfaire parking lot and called the police.

The robber was a boy about five feet eight inches tall and about seventeen or eighteen years old, the students said.

Nobody was injured and officers arrested a suspect on Heyer Street.

According to Supriano, the best thing to do in this kind of situation is to “stay calm and know that losing your stuff isn’t as bad as getting killed.”