Boy, 17, meets tragic end just moments after stealing 71 year-old man's phone

Shocking surveillance footage shows nan infinitesimal a 17-year-old boy is killed aft being tally complete by a autobus while attempting to bargain an aged man's cellphone. 

The teen is seen stepping up to nan 71-year-old man while he was talking connected nan telephone connected a thoroughfare area successful nan southeastern Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo past Friday.

The unfortunate appeared arsenic he was astir to transverse to nan other sidewalk erstwhile nan teen abruptly grabbed his compartment telephone and took disconnected running.

A fewer seconds elapsed erstwhile nan autobus crossed nan intersection and plowed into nan unsuspecting perp earlier it instantly came to a afloat stop.

The teenager, whose sanction was not released, was rushed to Brasilândia Hospital, wherever he later died from nan injuries he sustained.

Pedro Garbin, 38, told Brazilian news outlet Metropoles that nan boy was capable to get retired from nether nan autobus without assistance.

'(He) rolled onto nan curb. He was lying down, talking, moving,' nan businessman said.

Gabriel Silva, 20, was cutting a customer's hairsbreadth astatine a barbershop and was startled by nan effect of nan autobus hitting nan teen.

'I heard a large sound and ran retired into nan thoroughfare immediately,' he said. '(He was) lying successful agony connected nan ground.'

At slightest 158,150 thefts and 137,891 compartment telephone robberies were reported successful nan authorities of São Paulo successful 2023, according to nan yearly study released by nan Brazilian Security Forum past Wednesday.

In São Paulo, nan authorities capital, an mean of 1,781.6 compartment phones were stolen aliases robbed per each 100,000 inhabitants, crime information shows.

In all, 937,294 compartment phones were robbed aliases stolen passim Brazil past year, an mean of 107 per hour.

Brazilian Security Forum director, Samira Bueno, told Brazilian news outlet G1 that nan uptick successful compartment telephone robberies and thefts marked a 'profound alteration successful the dynamics of spot crime' successful nan South American nation.   

'It was already a trend, but pinch nan simplification successful nan circulation of people, pinch nan digitalization of banking successful general, some compartment telephone theft and fraud are becoming much accessible because your full life is connected your compartment phone,' Bueno said. 

'Sometimes it's not conscionable yours, it's your full family's life. It's photos, it's different people's contacts. This reveals a alteration successful patterns.'