Police Warn Of Armed Robberies In Lincoln Park, Old Town
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Police are warning residents about a series of recent armed robberies in the Lincoln Park and Old Town neighborhoods.
In each incident, four males walked up to victims, pulled out a handgun and forcibly demanded property, according to an alert from Chicago Police. When victims didn't comply with the orders, the robbers threatened to shoot them.
The robberies happened:
- between 10:15 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. May 22 in the 2300 block of North Halsted Street;
- about 10:15 p.m. May 22 in the 600 block of West Webster Avenue;
- about 3:35 p.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of West Dickens Avenue;
- at 10:22 p.m. Tuesday in the 600 block of West Webster Avenue;
- at 10:48 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of West Belden Avenue;
- at 10:56 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of West Fullerton Parkway; and
- about 4:40 a.m. Tuesday in the 1400 block of North Sedgwick Street.
The suspects are described as four black males between the ages of 17 and 20, standing between 5-foot-2 and 6-foot-4 and weighing between 160 and 185 pounds, police said.
Anyone with information should call Area Central detectives at (312) 747-8380.
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