The West Loop neighborhood is in shock after Chicago police said an armed robber shot two women after taking their valuables at gunpoint.
An armed suspect shot and robbed two women in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood early Saturday, police said. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch A male suspect, whose age was not immediately known, got out of a white SUV and approached two women, 21 and 33, on the sidewalk, police said.
Police said the suspect demanded the women's valuables and took a purse from one of them before firing multiple shots. He then returned to the SUV and fled the scene. The Chicago Fire Department treated both women on the scene. The 21-year-old, shot in the knee, and the 33-year-old, grazed in the hip, were taken to local hospitals in fair to good condition, CPD said.
"Like maybe six or seven shots, but I thought well that sounds like and then started hearing sirens coming from the area, so I looked out the window and saw all the police cars up and down the street," the witness said. "That is so surprising and really scary, especially since they complied and did, like, what the person asked, and it seems really senseless," resident Shavana Green said.
"It's scary, because I could literally happen anywhere... could happen at the safe parts," Green said. "It can happen in the other parts. "Man shot in head, critically hurt while exiting truck on S. Side: CPDSCOTUS rejects VA bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats
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