CPD warns of robbers targeting delivery drivers in Englewood, West Englewood
Police said in each of the robberies, a group of three men wearing black hoodies and ski masks walked up to their victims with a handgun and demanded their vehicle.
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Police said in each of the robberies, a group of three men wearing black hoodies and ski masks walked up to their victims with a handgun and demanded their vehicle.
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The officers inhaled fumes in the incident in West Englewood, and were treated at the scene.
The robberies happened in the evening and morning hours in the 6300 block of South Ashland Avenue on Aug. 10 and Sept. 1-2.
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Officers gathered for a roll call near 73rd Place and Racine Avenue, trying to disrupt an open-air drug market that has been operating in a vacant lot.
The police action Friday night came after Ald. David Moore (17th) camped out on 73rd Place near the West Englewood drug market to bring attention to the problem.
Neighbors say both shootings were preventable.
A total of 13 people were wounded between the two shootings, one of which happened in Humboldt Park, the other in West Englewood. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
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The woman was struck in the head and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she died.
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Wentworth Area detectives are investigating the circumstances of the shooting.
The teen was arrested on Friday, in the 6500 block of South Racine Avenue, and charged with two felony counts of armed robbery.
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A 22-year-old man was heading southbound on Racine in a Ford pickup when he failed to stop at a stop sign and struck a male driver in a red sedan, police said.
The offenders entered her vehicle and fled southbound on Damen.
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