Man charged with shooting woman, carjacking man in Avondale
Renard McGee, 18, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated vehicular hijacking, attempted aggravated vehicular hijacking, and aggravated assault.
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Renard McGee, 18, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated vehicular hijacking, attempted aggravated vehicular hijacking, and aggravated assault.
The woman had just parked outside the AMC Niles movie theater at Golf Mill Shipping Center when she was carjacked Wednesday morning.
It happened Tuesday night outside the Kingsbury Plaza luxury high-rise apartment building.
It happened Tuesday night outside the Kingsbury Plaza luxury high-rise apartment building.
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.
Upon arrival, officers learned that a dark gray 2015 Dodge Durango was taken from a woman, 33, of Waukegan resident who was ordered to take her young son and exit from the vehicle.
In each incident, at least one of the robbers was armed with a handgun, police said.
Litzy Rodriguez, 19, was arrested just after 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the 1600 block of North McVicker Avenue.
According to police, three robbers took a car at gunpoint from one of the victims before driving around and robbing lone pedestrians of their property.
Authorities arrested Marvin Johnson, 22, at his home in the 7800 block of South Essex Avenue on Thursday.
An armed group carjacked a woman only to crash the vehicle multiple times in Rogers Park.
One of the offenders fled the scene in the victim's car. The other three left in a dark-colored sedan.
The victim was sitting in her parked car when four armed males approached and forced her out of the car, police said.
The chase was terminated when the man exited at Cicero into a residential area.
Troopers responded to the location around 4 a.m. for a report of a theft at the 7-Eleven store. When troopers arrived, a man ran out of the convenience store and forced someone at the gas pump to give up their car.
Darnell Ingram, 25, was arrested by members of the Vehicular Hijacking Task Force on Tuesday, in the 6600 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue.
Chicago Police are investigating.
Video showed the an attempted carjacking at the Shell station at the northeast corner of Ashland Avenue and Diversey Parkway in the middle of the day. CBS 2's Tara Molina is told such carjackings are happening at all hours of the day, and it does not matter how busy the station or the area is.
Police said on Jan. 28 just after 3:30 a.m., the offenders forced the victim from his car at which time he was struck by a passing car, in the 400 block of East 71st Street. The offenders took off with the victim's car.
The man then took off in the red Toyota Camry heading westbound.
Police said the victim was entering his running vehicle when a man came up from behind and pistol-whipped him in the back of the head.
Police said on Jan. 28 just after 3:30 a.m., the offenders forced the victim from his car at which time he was struck by a passing car, in the 400 block of East 71st Street.
Angel Martinez, 23, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm and one felony count of reckless discharge of a firearm.
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