'Everyone Started Screaming': Victims Of Wicker Park Paintball Attack Speak Out
"Someone's out there trying to instill fear and that's the disappointing part about living in Chicago now."
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"Someone's out there trying to instill fear and that's the disappointing part about living in Chicago now."
Several people were hit with paint balls Tuesday evening as they stood on the sidewalk on Division Street in Wicker Park.
She said the two cars that had been doubled parked had now pinned them in. A passenger in one of the cars got out and went straight to her date.
A total of 967 carjackings have been reported this year through early August.
A man was carjacked in Wicker Park early Monday morning.
A mother and her 2-year-old daughter were carjacked in Wicker Park.
A man was shot and killed in an apartment on the eastern edge of the Wicker Park neighborhood early Sunday.
"It's been a bit frustrating."
A woman was the victim of a carjacking in Wicker Park Sunday night.
A man shot a gun at his own SUV as someone tried to steal it in Wicker Park Monday night.
The rise in carjackings in Chicago has certainly left many of us uneasy.
It remains a growing epidemic within the coronavirus pandemic – carjackings were up 132 percent in 2020, and they show no signs of slowing.
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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Quitone Nash, of Markham, was out on bond on previous misdemeanor charges when he and two other men carjacked a man sleeping in his vehicle in the parking lot of a Jewel grocery store in Wicker Park.
A man was carjacked Saturday morning at the busy intersection of Milwaukee, Damen, and North avenues in Wicker Park.
Chicago Police on Monday were investigating a rash of carjackings and attempted carjackings in trendy Milwaukee Avenue Corridor neighborhoods.
Four car fires within a week and a half, all within a mile and a half of each other.
A home that was under construction partially collapsed onto the building next door in Wicker Park Tuesday evening.
A Chicago woman who was attacked on the sidewalk now knows she was not the only one.
"This could have been prevented if people cared, if people weren't so involved in their own agendas. There are so many dominoes that fell that led to this event that should not have even been in place," said Calderon's husband, Israel Alvarado III.
Video obtained exclusively by CBS 2 shows accused Wicker Park Walgreens killer Sincere Williams breaking into a gun shop months before the attack, the owner says.
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Prosecutors say the suspect, 18-year-old Sincere Williams, prepared for the killing.
A suspect was charged Tuesday afternoon with stabbing an employee to death at a Walgreens drugstore in Wicker Park over the weekend.
