Police are warning about an armed robbery crew that struck twice last week downtown. The team may have struck a third time in North Center, according to a source. In a community alert Monday night, police said both downtown victims were sitting in cars when an armed man entered their vehicle, displayed a handgun, and demanded their valuables.
Around 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 26, a man and woman were in a car on the 100 block of West Superior when the offender and an accomplice robbed them, according to a CPD report. The victims, who sought help from a doorman at a nearby apartment building, said two offenders fled the scene eastbound on Superior in a blue sedan.
The robbers struck again around 1:55 a.m. Friday in the 400 block of West Oak Street. This time, they fled in a black four-door SUV, according to the community alert.
Less than an hour after that robbery, another victim was robbed at gunpoint by men who fled in a black SUV near Byron and Lincoln in North Center. Detectives did not link the North Center hold-up to the other two cases in the alert, but a source said the cases have many similarities.
Police described the downtown robbers as two Black men between 20- and 30-years-old who stand 5’10” to 5’11” tall and weigh 150 to 200 pounds.
Anyone with information about robberies can contact Area Three detectives at 312-744-8263 about community alert #P21-3-067.