A mother described being attacked twice in one night on Chicago's Northwest Side after it was all caught on video. She tried to flag down cars and even a CTA bus for help, but no one stopped.
Adriana tried to flag down cars and even a CTA bus, but no one stopped to help, surveillance video showsA Jefferson Park, Chicago robbery victim described being attacked twice in one night near Long and Lawrence.
It was all caught on camera.A woman who was ambushed by men twice in one night last week spoke exclusively with ABC7 on Tuesday. Adriana pointed to the spots where, she said, three men held handguns against her, screaming at her to hand over anything she had.Speaking with ABC7 late Tuesday afternoon, the family asked us to conceal their faces for their own safety. As Adriana narrated the worst seconds of her life in Spanish, her 12-year-old daughter choked back tears, translating.Surveillance video shows Adriana walking west on Lawrence Avenue, headed to work last Monday morning in the middle of the night. Video shows an armed group robbing a woman at gunpoint before returning to attack her on Chicago's Northwest Side. A few strides in, a dark sedan screeched along the sidewalk, and four people bail outed, surrounding her. They shoved, manhandled and stripped the 35-year-old woman of her cellphone, wallet and a few other things. "The pistol. The three of them had guns. They pointed at her head, her neck," the victim's daughter said.Until Tuesday, Adriana, her husband, and her 12-year-old daughter had no idea the video of her entire attack existed. They watched it with tears streaming down their faces.A CTA bus and two passing cars never so much as paused. That's when the four attackers returned for a replay. "They told her they were going to shoot her if she didn't give them the pin," Adriana's daughter said. "The next time they came, she thought they were going to kill her for the same thing." What you can't fully see, for their own safety, is the anguish on her husband and daughter's faces. The attack was so much worse than they knew.Adriana's husband said he doesn't know how his wife survived such a terrible attack. "I don't know. I just asked her last night, the same question," he said. "She said she feels brave because of us, me and my daughter. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made it."