Robbers hold up 7 Chicago businesses within 45 minutes
No one was hurt, but at least one business in the West Loop had to close for the day.
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No one was hurt, but at least one business in the West Loop had to close for the day.
Police said there have been five similar robberies since early February in the 5100 block of West Washington Boulevard.
Police say a man would use the online selling platform to either sell or buy cell phones.
The incidents all happened within a few blocks of each other in the South Shore neighborhood.
The incidents all happened within a few blocks of each other in the South Shore neighborhood.
"When you see something like this, that was the first time I saw that. It shakes me up."
The robbers took the victim's property and drove off in his car, police said.
The man exited his car outside the Kingsbury Plaza luxury high-rise apartment building, at Grand Avenue and Kingsbury Street, when two men came up and demanded his property at gunpoint.
Surveillance video from the most recent robbery shows a pair of gunmen robbing a man as he opens the security gate of a store.
Police are trying to identify the offenders who approached victims, threatened or struck the victims with a handgun and took their personal property.
According to police, multiple offenders armed with handguns exited a gray Kia or white sedan, approached the victims, and took their property by force.
When the victims arrived to meet up with the man near 63rd and Morgan, the man pulled out a gun and demanded the victim's money and cell phone.
Police say four to five men jumped out of a vehicle and pointed guns at victims saying, "This is a robbery, give me everything you got."
In two of the incidents, the robbers demand the PIN or password from the victims for their phones to be unlocked and then take a photo of said PIN or password with another phone.
The robberies happened on Sunday between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. in the Logan Square and Belmont Cragin neighborhoods.
In each incident, three or four offenders would exit a 2016 Black Infiniti G37 sedan, approach the victims, threaten with a handgun, and take personal property.
The brazen thieves were even caught on surveillance video, smashing a car into one business to break in.
The teen was arrested on Friday, in the 6500 block of South Racine Avenue, and charged with two felony counts of armed robbery.
In each incident, at least one of the robbers was armed with a handgun, police said.
The robbers took money from the cash registers and merchandise from the store before fleeing in a vehicle.
He was arrested on Monday in the West Ridge neighborhood
The robberies happened between Jan. 19 and Feb. 8 in the Bowmanville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Irving Park, and Edgewater neighborhoods
The robberies happened between 5:30 and 7 p.m. in the Grand Crossing and West Town neighborhoods
Damarco Williams, 20, and Devin Alexander, 18, were placed into custody and charged with multiple felonies.
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