According to local reports, a group of teenage boys and young men kidnapped an 82-year-old Chicago man over the weekend.
The alleged assailants removed the victim from his white SUV, threw some of his belongings onto the street and left him standing on the side of the road while rushing, according to a video obtained by local media.
There were so many suspects that not all of them fit in the car. Some pedaled on rental bikes before escaping on a Red Line train, CWB Chicago reported.
The alleged assailants pulled the victim out of his white van, dumped some of his belongings onto the street, and left him standing on the side of the road while rushing. (Courtesy: CWBChicago)
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Police said the suspects were between 14 and 20 years old.
The group had been driving rented bikes from Divvy, a bike-sharing program, when they approached the victim around 10 am Sunday, according to the report.
Four of them abandoned their bikes when they fled in the stolen vehicle, the video shows.
The robbery comes after a series of car thefts in the city that police also attributed to teenagers and children, although it is unclear whether they were committed by the same suspects.
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Earlier this month, Chicago police said a group of four to six African-American youths allegedly approached more than a dozen victims between June 23 and July 18, demanding their vehicles and property. Gunshots were fired in at least two of those incidents, although no one was reported injured.
A security guard thwarted another attempted car theft when he chased away three gunmen trying to victimize a woman and her son on July 22, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
President Trump announced last week a “surge” of federal law enforcement officers to help crime-affected cities across the country, including Chicago, as part of “Operation Legend.”
The federal anti-violence operation is named after 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was asleep at his home in Kansas City, Missouri, around 2:30 a.m. on June 9, when the shots went through the wall and hit him. fatally, according to authorities.
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Operation Legend was first launched in Kansas City on July 8. Attorney General William Barr announced last Wednesday that it would expand to other cities plagued by similar spikes in violence, including Chicago.
