Armed robbers targeted victims walking or biking on the North Side in at least five incidents Tuesday morning, Chicago police said.
Starting at 12:30 a.m., police said three male suspects in a silver sedan robbed a 53-year-old man walking down the sidewalk in the 1500-block of North Milwaukee Avenue, stealing his cellphone and wallet at gunpoint.
At about 1:49 a.m., police said the gunmen robbed a 32-year-old man riding a bicycle in the 3000-block of West Armitage Avenue. On that same block less than 10 minutes later, police said a 30-year-old man was riding a bicycle when he was forced off the street by suspects in a silver sedan who robbed him at gunpoint."We have all these nice condos, everybody's working different hours, so they just figure this is where they can get something, which is sad, very sad," Roman said. "You walk around like me, carrying my iPad. So everybody's walking around with computers, iPads, cell phones.
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