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f it weren't for his love of his
grandmother's apple cake,
Scott Kaplan may have es-
caped a robbery last Friday
night at his grandparents' home
in West Bloomfield.
Scott and his grandparents
were in the kitchen, slicing a
piece of cake for Scott to take
home, when they heard two loud
noises that began their night-
mare.
When it was over, Scott lay on
the kitchen floor bleeding from a
gunshot wound to the back and
his grandparents, survivors of
Nazi concentration camps, were
thoroughly shaken.
"When I came here I thought
I would never be hungry, my kids
would be safe, and then this hap-
pened," the grandmother said.
She did not want her identity re-
vealed because the gunmen have
not been found.
"I am glad my grandson is OK
now," she said.
Scott said the evening began
like every Friday night of his
17-year-old life. He walked next
door to eat a Shabbat dinner
prepared by his grandmother.
That night it would be home-
made challah, chicken soup,
baked chicken and a dish of
shredded carrots, walnuts and
raisins marinated in orange juice
and wine.
Following the meal, his fami-
ly left the home for their own.
Scott hung back for the cake.

"My family can't have it be-
cause of the sugar," he said. "But
I like it."
He and his grandparents had
finished cutting the cake when
they heard the thieves kicking
down the front door.
."It sounded like gunshots," he
said. "It was really loud."
Within seconds, a man was in
the kitchen, pointing a gun and
ordering them to lie face down on
the kitchen floor. The grandfa-
ther, thinking it was a mean
prank, walked toward the man
and was about to reach for the
gun when the man again ordered
him to the floor.

Police believe it
was a case of
mistaken identity.

"He thought it was a fake gun.
He thought it was a friend of
mine, but I was scared. I lay on
the floor," Scott recalled.
With all three on the floor, an-
other intruder entered the
kitchen and opened a garage
door. Scott heard the man say,
"It's not here."
The second intruder came
back into the kitchen, kicked the
grandfather in the head and or-
dered the grandmother to show

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