CPD seek 3 suspects who beat, robbed passenger on CTA Red Line train
Detectives said around 2:10 a.m., two men and a woman approached a woman while on the train at the 47th Street stop in the 200 block of West 47th Street.
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Detectives said around 2:10 a.m., two men and a woman approached a woman while on the train at the 47th Street stop in the 200 block of West 47th Street.
Two offenders grabbed the victim by the hair and demanded his property before he stabbed one of them in the neck.
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Police said the store itself sustained about $50,000 in damage due to the crash and grab burglary.
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The incident happened just after 9:30 p.m. in the 10-100 block of North Dearborn Street.
Surveillance video from Big Discount Liquor in Maplewood, Minnesota shows the chain of events.
During the robbery, one of the men smashed display cases and took unspecified property. A robber also demanded property from a woman in the store.
In each incident, the men targeted businesses where they displayed a gun and demanded access to the cash register and the safe.
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Surveillance video shows the robber in different outfits. In one video, he goes behind a register and tries to open it.
Surveillance video shows him in different outfits, and in one video, he goes behind a register and tries to get it open.
The robbery happened on Friday, July 19, just before 12:30 a.m. at the Morse stop in the 1300 block of West Morse Avenue.
Police said the suspect approached the victim while riding the train and became irate. That's when he struck the victim with a pair of pliers, cutting them, and then began strangling the victim.
Police say the suspect robbed someone on the train after cutting someone with pliers and then tried to strangle them on July 14.
Police said they were identified as the people who took belongings from a man, 48, in the 1200 block of South Halsted Street after implying they had a weapon.
The robberies happened during the afternoon and evening hours in June and July in the Bronzeville and Kenwood neighborhoods.
Police said the 61-year-old man was walking near La Salle and Washington streets around 2:45 a.m., when four people got out of a dark car and attacked him.
Police released surveillance video of the suspects and say the men robbed at least seven people at gunpoint on June 26.
Police have released surveillance video of the suspects and say the men robbed at least seven people at gunpoint early on June 26. The entire robbery spree happened in just about one hour.
The robber choked the man, hit him in the head with the pliers, and took his cellphone, police said.
The robber choked the man, hit him in the head with the pliers, and took his cellphone on the Red Line, police said.
The 11-year-old, along with another girl, 15, and two boys, 14 and 16, were arrested on Tuesday in the 7000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.
Police said a 27-year-old man got into an argument with another passenger while riding a CTA bus around 10:20 p.m. in the 300 block of North Cicero Avenue.
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A 61-year-old Chicago nurse has filed a lawsuit against two private security companies, after she said she was seriously hurt by a fare dodger at a CTA station on her way to work last year.
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