Man beaten to death in Chicago's Washington Heights neighborhood; woman and 2 kids carjacked on same block minutes later
The search is on for the man who beat a senior citizen to death at a Chicago bus stop. The attack in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the South Side was caught on video.
Minutes after the man was killed, a woman and two children were carjacked on the same block.
Police said a 76-year-old man was attacked around 9:15 p.m. Monday in a CTA bus stop shelter at 95th and Halsted streets.
Surveillance video shows the victim and the suspect inside a bus stop shelter. One man stands up and punches the other in the face. That man retaliates and beats the victim to the ground, and repeatedly stomping on his head.
Police found the man on the ground with trauma to the head. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
At the scene, shattered glass was spotted on the ground, along with what appeared to be a baseball hat.
Police said whoever attacked the man got away.
Around 9:30 p.m., a 60-year-old woman who was in her car with a 3-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy was carjacked on the same block as where the 70-year-old man was attacked. Police said they were sitting in a green Kia Telluride when a man got in the car, implied he had a gun, and told them to get out.
After the victims got out of the car, the man drove south on Halsted. Police said the woman and children were not hurt.
Area 2 detectives were investigating whether the beating death and the carjacking were connected.
No one was in custody Tuesday afternoon.