Gregory smith, who had been jobless for one year got desperate and entered ‘Advance America’ a store at Indianapolis, jumped behind the counter and pointed a gun at the clerk. The clerk was aghast and she started crying.
And then something strange happened. The robber started consoling and hugging the clerk, saying that he would not harm her. He even emptied the bullet from his pistol to assure her. But as the lady wept asking him to leave her in the name of God, the thief who had come to rob the place, became remorseful, hugged her and knelt down to pray with her.
‘The praying robber’, as he was nicknamed after this incident became the talk of the internet.
He hated doing this, he told Angela Montez the female clerk, but he needed the money for his 2 year old and his girlfriend as times were hard and he could not support them.
As the police watched from a distance, they saw him speak to the clerk for about 30 minutes and as suddenly as he had come, he grabbed the clerk’s cellphone and $20 from the cash register and left immediately. But later turned himself in when his mother saw him on the news.
He is now in jail and has vowed never to rob again.
Smith is a heating and air technician who has been jobless for the past one year, with a 2 year old daughter and a girlfriend to support. He also claims to have been in the US Air Force for four years.