Kid vicious
UES teens in cab stickup
Living in cushy Upper East Side town houses on tree-lined blocks apparently wasn’t enough to satisfy a teenage Bonnie-and-Clyde duo in training — the two youths allegedly held up a cabby at gunpoint early Friday and put him in the hospital.
Dean Rufli and Hawa Sakho, both 16, hailed a cab at around 1:30 a.m. near East 74th Street and Third Avenue, close to where Sakho lives, and allegedly attacked the driver, police sources said.
Sakho allegedly pulled a gun on the 28-year-old driver while the duo demanded his cellphone.
Rufli then allegedly punched the driver in the eye, sending him to New York Presbyterian Hospital with a facial injury, according to police sources.
The teens allegedly made off with the phone.
“I’m at a loss for words,” Rufli’s father, Peter, told The Post by phone, asking whether the gun they used was real or fake.
“Something like this is definitely out of character,” he said.
He said his son and Sakho are friends and that he couldn’t believe either would engage in such violent behavior.
“She’s a very, very nice girl,” the dad said.
Police swarmed Sakho’s apartment on East 74th Street on Friday afternoon and kept guard outside her door for hours.
Some officers scoured a trash bin outside of her home but appeared to come out empty-handed.
Police say the teens, who both have addresses on the Upper East Side, were picked up shortly after the attack and arrested.
Both will be charged as adults, police said.
Rufli has been charged with assault and robbery, and Sakho has been charged with robbery, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.