A 12-year-old boy has been apprehended for robbing the wife of Jim Boeheim, Syracuse University basketball coach, at gunpoint in a mall parking lot.
Last week, as Juli was sitting in her car outside the Destiny USA mall in Syracuse, the unidentified teen holding an air gun reportedly approached her, Syracuse.com reported.
The teenage boy allegedly pointed the air gun at Boeheim, reached into the vehicle and grabbed her purse, according to the police’s report.
The teen then fled the scene with three men in a stolen car according to police.
The boy, who is being held in a detention center for juvenile delinquents, faces multiple charges, including second-degree robbery, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and fourth-degree grand larceny, according to the report.
Juli Boeheim co-founded the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation, an organization that raises money for cancer research and at-risk youth.
Juli’s husband said Wednesday afternoon on Brent Axe’s ESPN radio show that her wife wasn’t injured in the attack because it was a kid that attacked her.
“If it was an older man it probably would have … [thoughts trailed off]. Her main thought was, ‘let’s help this kid.’ That’s what she does, we do with our foundation.”
