Weekend muggings in Andersonville and Lakewood-Balmoral neighborhoods
Early Sunday morning three women were robbed at gun point in the Lakewood-Balmoral neighborhood, the Chicago Tribune reported. According to the story, the women were walking home down Berwyn Avenue around 12:10am after visiting a local comedy club when a man brandishing a handgun jumped out from behind a dumpster and demanded their purses. The suspect took $26, student ID cards, state IDs and one older-model cell phone and then reached over and groped one of the victims before fleeing in a dark-colored, late model vehicle being driven by another man. The women called the police shortly thereafter, and they issued a flash message describing one of the men as black, early 20s, 5-foot-10 to 5-foot-11, wearing a black hooded sweat shirt with gray pants, and carrying a black gun.
Another incident occured shortly after just blocks away near Winnemac and Glenwood where a man was approached from behind, pushed to the ground, by another man who then screamed: “Give me your phone!’’ The victims wallet and cell phone were taken before the suspect fled into a nearby SUV. It is not clear at this time if the two incidents were related.
