Man Robs Bar With 'Finger Gun,' Wants To Return To Prison

CLAYTON, MO — After serving a 38-year sentence for murdering a high school student who wouldn't date him, 57-year-old Paul Borroni is headed back to prison, the Post-Dispatch reports. This time, it's right where he wants to be.

After being released in February, police say Borroni walked into a downtown Clayton bar frequented by judges and lawyers last week and demanded cash. With his finger in a coat pocket, Borroni pretended to have a gun, and asked a bar employee to call the police, threatening to shoot her otherwise.

"I want to go back to jail," Borroni later told authorities, according to a police spokesperson. Borroni told detectives that he didn't want to be homeless. He had been kicked out of a St. Louis homeless shelter for using drugs and alcohol and was unable to find space elsewhere.

Borroni is charged with first-degree robbery and held on $250,000 cash bail.

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