Within a matter of minutes, the same four armed men robbed a woman twice, and nobody stopped to help.
In February, four armed men in Chicago jumped out of a vehicle as a woman was walking to the train early in the morning, heading for work. The first assault and robbery lasted for over two minutes as they attacked her on the sidewalk, taking her belongings.
Trying to get help, she went into the street, but neither a CTA bus nor the two cars that went by stopped.
The assailants then returned and forced her to unlock her phone.
The police report said these guys were “laughing while this all happened,” and the bus driver witnessed the robbery.
Adriana’s daughter said, “They told her they were going to shoot her if she didn’t give them the pin,” and that “the next time they came, she thought they were going to kill her for the same thing.”
“Maybe I was a bit overconfident,” the woman said. “It never went through my head that something like this could happen to me.”
I can’t stress enough that complacency can get you killed, and if something happens, you will most likely be on your own.
4 out of 5 altercations are avoidable, so don’t become a target.