A 12-year-old boy is accused of pointing a gun at a girl’s head and demanding one of her chicken nuggets, New York police said.
The schoolboy is said to have approached her inside a McDonald’s restaurant in Harlem and asked for a nugget.
But when she refused, police say he followed her to a nearby subway station and pointed a gun at her head, demanding she hand one over.
She is alleged to have smacked the gun away and boarded a train, before reporting the incident to school officials the next day.
The New York Police Department said the boy was later taken into custody but that the gun had not been found, which means it remains unclear whether it was a replica or not.
The boy was reportedly released on Thursday and the case has now been referred to the family courts.
