Police said Nicholas Holiday broke into an Uptown fast food restaurant and tried to steal cash. But there was not money to be found, so he called 911 to report himself to authorities.
The teen is charged with robbing convenience stores in Lincoln Park and Little Italy last week and also robbing a man in West Town on Monday afternoon.
Garett Young allegedly displayed a handgun and threatened to shoot a neighbor who came to his door to complain about a loud argument minutes before Young told police that Samuel Wiener shot himself to death in Rogers Park.
Joshua Holt allegedly tried to abduct at teenage girl on the Northwest Side in February, just weeks after prosecutors dropped a murder case he was facing in Chicago.
Robbers have targeted three 7-Eleven convenience stores in the Loop this month. And a Lincoln Park convenience store has been robbed three times in two weeks.
Chicago police arrested just 12 people on Wednesday as the state’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order kept many people indoors. Chicago car crash reports have also nosedived. But the virus is infecting more inmates at the county jail.