New York Giants wide receiver Steve Smith was so traumatized by the armed robber he encountered outside his town house in a gated community in Clifton, N.J., that he is moving.

Not just moving on emotionally. Actual box-packing, security-deposit collecting moving.

"I was definitely shaken," Smith said Wednesday in his first public comments on the incident since it became public knowledge Sunday night. "I can't speak about it because it's an ongoing investigation, but it was scary."

According to police reports, Smith was robbed at gunpoint at around 4 a.m. Nov. 25 after hiring a car to drive him home. Police questioned the driver of the car, but Smith told them he did not believe the driver was the assailant or knew who it was.

Smith was approaching the front steps of his house when a person holding a revolver came up from behind him and said, "Give me everything you've got," according to Capt. Robert Rowan, a Clifton police detective. The robber then took Smith's money and jewelry.

"I'm still shaken up," he said, acknowledging it was the first time he'd been held up. "You see it happen to people and you never really think it's going to happen to you, until it does."

Smith wouldn't share details of the incident. He also declined to say whether Plaxico Burress was aware of his run-in when Burress apparently brought a loaded gun with him to a nightclub later in the week, although Smith did say that everyone on the team has been supportive.

Smith said he believes all athletes are targeted. He also said he learned from the events.

"You have to be more cautious," he said. "You can't be out late and you need to have somebody with you at all times."