A New York man has been arrested for pointing a gun at a six-year-old boy who mistakenly put a Halloween candy bag on his doorstep.
Michael Yifan Wen, 43, was arrested on charges of menacing in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child, per CBS News.
The incident unfolded on Saturday (October 28) after a mother drove her daughter and six-year-old son to a friend's house to drop off a goody bag with candy, Nassau County police said.
The children approached the door, rang the doorbell, and left the candy on the porch. However, as the family was leaving, the daughter realized that they dropped the candy bag off at the wrong address.
The six-year-old boy went back to the doorstep to retrieve the bag when Wen “stepped out of the house and pointed a black handgun at the victim’s head," authorities said. According to court documents, the mother yelled, “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!”
Wen's attorney said he had recently experienced other individuals knocking on his front door “at midnight and evening," including the day before the incident.
“I think what happened yesterday was totally a misunderstanding and a mistake,” attorney Williams Zou said in a statement. “He and his family has been terrorized recently by constant banging on his door.”
One resident said children in the area were playing a game called "ghosting," where they knock on their friend's door, leave a goody bag, and run away.
"It's supposed to be a happy, fun Halloween and something like this that happened, it's just terrible. It's just horrific," resident Alisa said.
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