Employee robbed at gunpoint inside Back of the Yards Wingstop
CPD officers responded to the scene where the employee told them that a masked man entered the restaurant armed with a handgun.
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CPD officers responded to the scene where the employee told them that a masked man entered the restaurant armed with a handgun.
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The victim was sitting in the driver's seat of the car when shots were fired, according to police.
The two were identified as the offenders who, on Dec. 30, around 11:20 a.m., took a vehicle at gunpoint from a 16-year-old boy in the 4400 block of South Lawler Avenue.
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The 14-year-old boy died at the scene, while the 65-year-old man was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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Surveillance video shows two cars pulling into the gas station at the same time. The victim wields a tire iron, while the suspect pulls a gun and shoots him. CBS 2's Darius Johnson reports.
Police say one of the workers was punched because he couldn't figure out how to open the store's safe.
The employee told police he was inside the restaurant when the offenders walked in, displayed firearms, and demanded money along with the victim's personal property.
The woman, 44, was taken by the Chicago Fire Department to Mt. Sinai Hospital in serious condition with a stab wound to the head. The man, 42, was taken by CFD to Christ Hospital in fair condition with stab wounds to the hands.
Police say the two were in an argument with a known male offender around 12:13 a.m., in the 4700 block of South Springfield Avenue, when he pulled a knife and stabbed the victims.
Police say in each incident, two to four armed male offenders approached the victims and demanded their property.
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