Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park, Articles, News

Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park

Friday, June 9th, two thousand seventeen 7:06 PM

Updated: Saturday, June 10th, two thousand seventeen 11:20 AM

By BOB UPHUES and TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

Senior Editor and Staff Reporter

A 17-year-old Chicago boy has been charged with armed robbery, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after allegedly hijacking a car in Forest Park and then leading police on a pursue that ended with his capture in Oak Park on June 9.

Forest Park police say that a local man had just parked his car in the municipal lot on Hannah Avenue just south of Madison Street at about Four:15 p.m. and was walking through the alley to his apartment when a black Chevy Impala drove up and stopped behind him.

The alleged offender, a 17-year-old Chicago resident, got out of the Impala and walked up to the victim as he began climbing the back stairs of his apartment building. The offender reportedly pointed a gun in the victim’s face and ordered him to palm over the car keys. The victim gave him the keys, which were used to steal the car, a silver Dodge Avenger.

The victim called nine hundred eleven and Oak Park police located the vehicle a brief time later, following it until the driver lost control at the intersection of Adams Street and Kenilworth Avenue, running down a yield sign before sticking into the curb and a puny tree.

"I thought there had been a car accident," said Edith Balch, who was inwards her home at the time of the crash and went outside to see what had happened. "The police asked us to get back in our houses, because they said the man was armed. It’s very scary."

Another witness said he heard the crash and went outside to see the car rolling back off the curb. He said he witnessed a masculine with bushy hair "fall out" of the vehicle and then run north through the alley inbetween Kenilworth and Grove avenues.

Police, some armed with onslaught rifles, descended on the area and formed a perimeter south of Monroe Street and west of Oak Park Avenue, taking up positions on each corner as officers searched for the suspect.

Just after Five:30 p.m., police located the suspect evidently walking in an alley inbetween the six hundred blocks of Euclid and Wesley avenues. Michael Tauber, a neighborhood resident, said he was parking his car in his garage when he eyed the suspect begin running south before cutting east through a side yard.

Police took the suspect into custody in the six hundred block of Wesley Avenue. According to Forest Park police, officers recovered a loaded handgun. The Chevy Impala, which the offender abandoned in Forest Park, reportedly was stolen in Chicago and was fitted with license plates that had been stolen from another vehicle in Bellwood.

It’s the 2nd such robbery reported in Forest Park within a week. On June four at about Ten:45 p.m., four people hijacked a car after pistol-whipping its possessor in front of a laundromat in the seven thousand six hundred block of Madison Street. Police chased the stolen vehicle and another car to the Dan Ryan Expressway before losing the stolen vehicle in traffic.

The other vehicle ran out of gas on the Stony Island exit ramp, where police apprehended two teenagers, one of whom they later charged with fleeing police. On June five the vehicle stolen in Forest Park was involved in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.

Two 17-year-olds and a 12-year-old were charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at police officers and then fleeing in the vehicle stolen from Forest Park.

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Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park, Articles, News

Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park

Friday, June 9th, two thousand seventeen 7:06 PM

Updated: Saturday, June 10th, two thousand seventeen 11:20 AM

By BOB UPHUES and TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

Senior Editor and Staff Reporter

A 17-year-old Chicago boy has been charged with armed robbery, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after allegedly hijacking a car in Forest Park and then leading police on a pursue that ended with his capture in Oak Park on June 9.

Forest Park police say that a local man had just parked his car in the municipal lot on Hannah Avenue just south of Madison Street at about Four:15 p.m. and was walking through the alley to his apartment when a black Chevy Impala drove up and stopped behind him.

The alleged offender, a 17-year-old Chicago resident, got out of the Impala and walked up to the victim as he began climbing the back stairs of his apartment building. The offender reportedly pointed a gun in the victim’s face and ordered him to arm over the car keys. The victim gave him the keys, which were used to steal the car, a silver Dodge Avenger.

The victim called nine hundred eleven and Oak Park police located the vehicle a brief time later, following it until the driver lost control at the intersection of Adams Street and Kenilworth Avenue, running down a yield sign before catapulting into the curb and a puny tree.

"I thought there had been a car accident," said Edith Balch, who was inwards her home at the time of the crash and went outside to see what had happened. "The police asked us to get back in our houses, because they said the man was armed. It’s very scary."

Another witness said he heard the crash and went outside to see the car rolling back off the curb. He said he eyed a masculine with bushy hair "fall out" of the vehicle and then run north through the alley inbetween Kenilworth and Grove avenues.

Police, some armed with onslaught rifles, descended on the area and formed a perimeter south of Monroe Street and west of Oak Park Avenue, taking up positions on each corner as officers searched for the suspect.

Just after Five:30 p.m., police located the suspect evidently walking in an alley inbetween the six hundred blocks of Euclid and Wesley avenues. Michael Tauber, a neighborhood resident, said he was parking his car in his garage when he witnessed the suspect begin running south before cutting east through a side yard.

Police took the suspect into custody in the six hundred block of Wesley Avenue. According to Forest Park police, officers recovered a loaded handgun. The Chevy Impala, which the offender abandoned in Forest Park, reportedly was stolen in Chicago and was fitted with license plates that had been stolen from another vehicle in Bellwood.

It’s the 2nd such robbery reported in Forest Park within a week. On June four at about Ten:45 p.m., four people hijacked a car after pistol-whipping its proprietor in front of a laundromat in the seven thousand six hundred block of Madison Street. Police chased the stolen vehicle and another car to the Dan Ryan Expressway before losing the stolen vehicle in traffic.

The other vehicle ran out of gas on the Stony Island exit ramp, where police apprehended two teenagers, one of whom they later charged with fleeing police. On June five the vehicle stolen in Forest Park was involved in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.

Two 17-year-olds and a 12-year-old were charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at police officers and then fleeing in the vehicle stolen from Forest Park.

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Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park, Articles, News

Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park

Friday, June 9th, two thousand seventeen 7:06 PM

Updated: Saturday, June 10th, two thousand seventeen 11:20 AM

By BOB UPHUES and TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

Senior Editor and Staff Reporter

A 17-year-old Chicago boy has been charged with armed robbery, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after allegedly hijacking a car in Forest Park and then leading police on a pursue that ended with his capture in Oak Park on June 9.

Forest Park police say that a local man had just parked his car in the municipal lot on Hannah Avenue just south of Madison Street at about Four:15 p.m. and was walking through the alley to his apartment when a black Chevy Impala drove up and stopped behind him.

The alleged offender, a 17-year-old Chicago resident, got out of the Impala and walked up to the victim as he began climbing the back stairs of his apartment building. The offender reportedly pointed a gun in the victim’s face and ordered him to mitt over the car keys. The victim gave him the keys, which were used to steal the car, a silver Dodge Avenger.

The victim called nine hundred eleven and Oak Park police located the vehicle a brief time later, following it until the driver lost control at the intersection of Adams Street and Kenilworth Avenue, running down a yield sign before jamming into the curb and a puny tree.

"I thought there had been a car accident," said Edith Balch, who was inwards her home at the time of the crash and went outside to see what had happened. "The police asked us to get back in our houses, because they said the man was armed. It’s very scary."

Another witness said he heard the crash and went outside to see the car rolling back off the curb. He said he eyed a masculine with bushy hair "fall out" of the vehicle and then run north through the alley inbetween Kenilworth and Grove avenues.

Police, some armed with onslaught rifles, descended on the area and formed a perimeter south of Monroe Street and west of Oak Park Avenue, taking up positions on each corner as officers searched for the suspect.

Just after Five:30 p.m., police located the suspect evidently walking in an alley inbetween the six hundred blocks of Euclid and Wesley avenues. Michael Tauber, a neighborhood resident, said he was parking his car in his garage when he spotted the suspect begin running south before cutting east through a side yard.

Police took the suspect into custody in the six hundred block of Wesley Avenue. According to Forest Park police, officers recovered a loaded handgun. The Chevy Impala, which the offender abandoned in Forest Park, reportedly was stolen in Chicago and was fitted with license plates that had been stolen from another vehicle in Bellwood.

It’s the 2nd such robbery reported in Forest Park within a week. On June four at about Ten:45 p.m., four people hijacked a car after pistol-whipping its holder in front of a laundromat in the seven thousand six hundred block of Madison Street. Police chased the stolen vehicle and another car to the Dan Ryan Expressway before losing the stolen vehicle in traffic.

The other vehicle ran out of gas on the Stony Island exit ramp, where police apprehended two teenagers, one of whom they later charged with fleeing police. On June five the vehicle stolen in Forest Park was involved in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.

Two 17-year-olds and a 12-year-old were charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at police officers and then fleeing in the vehicle stolen from Forest Park.

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Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park, Articles, News

Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park

Friday, June 9th, two thousand seventeen 7:06 PM

Updated: Saturday, June 10th, two thousand seventeen 11:20 AM

By BOB UPHUES and TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

Senior Editor and Staff Reporter

A 17-year-old Chicago boy has been charged with armed robbery, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after allegedly hijacking a car in Forest Park and then leading police on a pursue that ended with his capture in Oak Park on June 9.

Forest Park police say that a local man had just parked his car in the municipal lot on Hannah Avenue just south of Madison Street at about Four:15 p.m. and was walking through the alley to his apartment when a black Chevy Impala drove up and stopped behind him.

The alleged offender, a 17-year-old Chicago resident, got out of the Impala and walked up to the victim as he began climbing the back stairs of his apartment building. The offender reportedly pointed a gun in the victim’s face and ordered him to arm over the car keys. The victim gave him the keys, which were used to steal the car, a silver Dodge Avenger.

The victim called nine hundred eleven and Oak Park police located the vehicle a brief time later, following it until the driver lost control at the intersection of Adams Street and Kenilworth Avenue, running down a yield sign before stuffing into the curb and a puny tree.

"I thought there had been a car accident," said Edith Balch, who was inwards her home at the time of the crash and went outside to see what had happened. "The police asked us to get back in our houses, because they said the man was armed. It’s very scary."

Another witness said he heard the crash and went outside to see the car rolling back off the curb. He said he spotted a masculine with bushy hair "fall out" of the vehicle and then run north through the alley inbetween Kenilworth and Grove avenues.

Police, some armed with attack rifles, descended on the area and formed a perimeter south of Monroe Street and west of Oak Park Avenue, taking up positions on each corner as officers searched for the suspect.

Just after Five:30 p.m., police located the suspect evidently walking in an alley inbetween the six hundred blocks of Euclid and Wesley avenues. Michael Tauber, a neighborhood resident, said he was parking his car in his garage when he eyed the suspect begin running south before cutting east through a side yard.

Police took the suspect into custody in the six hundred block of Wesley Avenue. According to Forest Park police, officers recovered a loaded handgun. The Chevy Impala, which the offender abandoned in Forest Park, reportedly was stolen in Chicago and was fitted with license plates that had been stolen from another vehicle in Bellwood.

It’s the 2nd such robbery reported in Forest Park within a week. On June four at about Ten:45 p.m., four people hijacked a car after pistol-whipping its possessor in front of a laundromat in the seven thousand six hundred block of Madison Street. Police chased the stolen vehicle and another car to the Dan Ryan Expressway before losing the stolen vehicle in traffic.

The other vehicle ran out of gas on the Stony Island exit ramp, where police apprehended two teenagers, one of whom they later charged with fleeing police. On June five the vehicle stolen in Forest Park was involved in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.

Two 17-year-olds and a 12-year-old were charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at police officers and then fleeing in the vehicle stolen from Forest Park.

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Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park, Articles, News

Carjacking suspect captured in Oak Park

Friday, June 9th, two thousand seventeen 7:06 PM

Updated: Saturday, June 10th, two thousand seventeen 11:20 AM

By BOB UPHUES and TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER

Senior Editor and Staff Reporter

A 17-year-old Chicago boy has been charged with armed robbery, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after allegedly hijacking a car in Forest Park and then leading police on a pursue that ended with his capture in Oak Park on June 9.

Forest Park police say that a local man had just parked his car in the municipal lot on Hannah Avenue just south of Madison Street at about Four:15 p.m. and was walking through the alley to his apartment when a black Chevy Impala drove up and stopped behind him.

The alleged offender, a 17-year-old Chicago resident, got out of the Impala and walked up to the victim as he began climbing the back stairs of his apartment building. The offender reportedly pointed a gun in the victim’s face and ordered him to forearm over the car keys. The victim gave him the keys, which were used to steal the car, a silver Dodge Avenger.

The victim called nine hundred eleven and Oak Park police located the vehicle a brief time later, following it until the driver lost control at the intersection of Adams Street and Kenilworth Avenue, running down a yield sign before stuffing into the curb and a petite tree.

"I thought there had been a car accident," said Edith Balch, who was inwards her home at the time of the crash and went outside to see what had happened. "The police asked us to get back in our houses, because they said the man was armed. It’s very scary."

Another witness said he heard the crash and went outside to see the car rolling back off the curb. He said he eyed a masculine with bushy hair "fall out" of the vehicle and then run north through the alley inbetween Kenilworth and Grove avenues.

Police, some armed with attack rifles, descended on the area and formed a perimeter south of Monroe Street and west of Oak Park Avenue, taking up positions on each corner as officers searched for the suspect.

Just after Five:30 p.m., police located the suspect evidently walking in an alley inbetween the six hundred blocks of Euclid and Wesley avenues. Michael Tauber, a neighborhood resident, said he was parking his car in his garage when he eyed the suspect begin running south before cutting east through a side yard.

Police took the suspect into custody in the six hundred block of Wesley Avenue. According to Forest Park police, officers recovered a loaded handgun. The Chevy Impala, which the offender abandoned in Forest Park, reportedly was stolen in Chicago and was fitted with license plates that had been stolen from another vehicle in Bellwood.

It’s the 2nd such robbery reported in Forest Park within a week. On June four at about Ten:45 p.m., four people hijacked a car after pistol-whipping its holder in front of a laundromat in the seven thousand six hundred block of Madison Street. Police chased the stolen vehicle and another car to the Dan Ryan Expressway before losing the stolen vehicle in traffic.

The other vehicle ran out of gas on the Stony Island exit ramp, where police apprehended two teenagers, one of whom they later charged with fleeing police. On June five the vehicle stolen in Forest Park was involved in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.

Two 17-year-olds and a 12-year-old were charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at police officers and then fleeing in the vehicle stolen from Forest Park.

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