OXON HILL, MD — A former Marine working on his pickup truck outside Oxon Hill High School turned a gunpoint robbery against him, disarming one of four teenagers who police say tried to rob him Wednesday afternoon.
By Luke McCoy for USA Carry
Jheyco Borda told Fox 5 he was near the school around 4:30 p.m. when the group walked up on him on the sidewalk. He said the teens, all in hooded sweatshirts, surrounded him and demanded his keys, phone, and other valuables.
Surveillance video captured what happened next. One of the suspects pulled a handgun and pointed it directly at Borda’s head. For a split second the teen got distracted, and that was the only opening Borda needed.
Borda, who trained in hand-to-hand combat during his time in the Marines, moved immediately to take the gun away. His brother saw the struggle and ran in to help. The gun went off during the fight.
No one was hit. Borda said the round struck his truck and left a hole in the body of the vehicle.
When another suspect tried to jump in, Borda’s brother turned and grabbed him. The two men pinned the teens to the pavement and held them there until Prince George’s County police arrived. Officers took all four suspects into custody, and they remain in jail.
Here is the part that stays with me. Borda has children, and his dog Sky usually rides in the back seat. He told Fox 5 the bullet passed through a spot where a child could have been sitting. A robbery over a truck came inches from ending a life.
A gun to the head is an imminent threat of death, and Borda answered it with the only thing he had in that moment, which was his training and his hands. He never fired a shot. The teen who brought the gun is the one who pulled the trigger during the struggle.
“I’m feeling grateful. I’m still here and safe with my family,” Borda told Fox 5.
He said he holds the parents accountable because the suspects are minors, while making clear the teens knew exactly what they were doing.
There is one more insult on top of the injury. Borda said the repair will run him around $2,000, and his insurance will not cover it. He is out of pocket for surviving an ambush he never started.
Prince George’s County police are asking anyone with information about the incident to come forward.
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