Hundreds rally for kids robbed at gunpoint while working lemonade stand—Boston teen arrested

After two masked armed thugs robbed a lemonade stand in Boston for $50, the community is rallying around the children who had their hard-earned cash stolen from them. After news broke of the kids getting robbed, a huge crowd came out to support the young entrepreneurs. At the same time, one of the suspects in the robbery has been arrested.

The robbery took place on Wednesday afternoon, and police have caught one of the alleged perpetrators. The kids running the stand, 12-year-old David Byrne as well as his 11-year-old little sister, Juliette Byrne, had a gun pulled on them by the thugs.

However, now, the community is rallying around the Byrnes. On Friday, family friends Nicole and Jonathan Raukohl mobilized the Lower End Lemonade Sale on Friday evening at 157 W. 9th and E Streets. Half the money that was raised will be going to a local gun violence prevention group, per CBS News. Hundreds of neighbors showed up to support the lemonade stand.

"He walked over here and said, 'I might need to take the box,' and he grabbed it with one hand, and he showed us the gun which was right here," David Byrne told reporters, recounting the incident. Boston police have said that one of the thugs, identified as a 14-year-old male, was taken into custody on Friday night and will be charged with two counts of armed robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm, per WCVB.

"My sister she put her hands up and I said, 'you can have it,'" said Byrne. "But after that I was a little annoyed because we were 12 and 11 and you shouldn't really do that."

Video of the robbery showed the juvenile perpetrators running off with the kids' cash in a little chest. One was wearing all black with a white mask, and another was carrying a backpack.

"It's safe, it's fun and they literally do this every day, and this is one thing that happened," said Jonathan Raukohl. "So of course it's awful, right, but we want them to know we're not going to stop them playing on the street, we're not going to stop them hanging out with the kids around."