Police Warn Of String Of Armed Robberies Overnight
Chicago police are warning people around North Center, University Village, Wicker Park, West Town to be on guard, after a string of overnight robberies targeting people sitting in their cars.
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Chicago police are warning people around North Center, University Village, Wicker Park, West Town to be on guard, after a string of overnight robberies targeting people sitting in their cars.
A 17-year-old has been charged in two carjackings and an armed robbery throughout the city.
Police on Saturday issued an alert about a string of robberies and a carjacking in the city's Lakeview neighborhood, all in less than an hour.
The boy is charged with one count each of aggravated vehicular hijacking, armed robbery, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
Two armed robberies on Chicago's Near North side, just blocks and minutes apart.
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Keshawn Wordlow, of the West Chatham neighborhood, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking and two felony counts of armed robbery.
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So far, no arrests have been made. It is unclear if these two incidents are related.
Police said the 49-year-old woman was walking from her car in a parking lot on the 2200 block of West Division Street shortly after 11 p.m., when three men walked up, and one of them pulled out a gun and demanded the keys to her vehicle.
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The men went up to victims with handguns and robbed them before getting away in a red Buick sedan, police said.
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