Chicago has seen a disturbing trend in violent crimes hitting the heart of downtown with police addressing the challenging safety crisis at police headquarters on Monday.
During Monday's news conference, chief of detectives Brendan Deenihan said police have still not determined whether those are connected to last week's spate of robberies.
Chicago police described the suspects as a group of African American males between 16 and 30-years-old, usually working out of a stolen car who are confronting people late at night or in the early morning hours. One of the robberies captured on video surveillance resulted in the shooting on May 6, as the gunman confronted Earley at the corner of Webster and Wayne avenues. Earley gave the gunman a bag of items he’d purchased along with his cell phone, but the gunman still shot him.
"We're looking for several offenders," Deenihan said. "There's a white car that fled the scene. And then approximately, I think it was very quickly, four to seven minutes prior to that one, there was another robbery with that exact same white vehicle. So we know those guys are linked to that case as well. Then once again, obviously, the detectives then are reading all the cases within the last 24 to 48 hours, even going back a week and linking those.
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