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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/...robbed-of-snowblower-20110204,0,5192264.story
A man was shot and robbed of cash and a snowblower in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side early this morning--the first shooting since this week's blizzard hit Chicago on Tuesday, police said.
This week's storm kept crime down in the city so much that the shooting was among one of the first serious crimes reported to police since Tuesday, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said at a news conference updating city efforts at storm cleanup.
The man, 47, was walking down the middle of the street near West 56th Street and South Shields Avenue about 1:40 a.m. with the snowblower, when a white, four-door sedan pulled up, police said.
One of four people inside the car asked the man, "How much you want for the snowblower?" The man then told them it was not for sale, according to police and the victim's mother. The victim told his mother he was walking to go home to East Chatham from Englewood when the car pulled up and two men got out, she said.
The two took the snowblower and $27 from the man's pockets, police said. One of the men asked the victim if he wanted to "get popped," just before the man heard a gunshot and was wounded, police said.
The two attackers, who appeared to be in their 20s, then got back in the car and fled north. The victim was left shot in the thigh and suffered a graze wound to his scrotum, police said. The victim was reported in good condition at Stroger Hospital, where his mother said he was undergoing surgery this afternoon.
The victim didn't tell his mother whether he recognized the men, she said.Wentworth Area detectives were investigating. No one was in custody.<!-- / message -->
thankfully he's alive, but damn i know the weather is rough but people getting more and more stupid it seems.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/...robbed-of-snowblower-20110204,0,5192264.story
A man was shot and robbed of cash and a snowblower in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side early this morning--the first shooting since this week's blizzard hit Chicago on Tuesday, police said.
This week's storm kept crime down in the city so much that the shooting was among one of the first serious crimes reported to police since Tuesday, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said at a news conference updating city efforts at storm cleanup.
The man, 47, was walking down the middle of the street near West 56th Street and South Shields Avenue about 1:40 a.m. with the snowblower, when a white, four-door sedan pulled up, police said.
One of four people inside the car asked the man, "How much you want for the snowblower?" The man then told them it was not for sale, according to police and the victim's mother. The victim told his mother he was walking to go home to East Chatham from Englewood when the car pulled up and two men got out, she said.
The two took the snowblower and $27 from the man's pockets, police said. One of the men asked the victim if he wanted to "get popped," just before the man heard a gunshot and was wounded, police said.
The two attackers, who appeared to be in their 20s, then got back in the car and fled north. The victim was left shot in the thigh and suffered a graze wound to his scrotum, police said. The victim was reported in good condition at Stroger Hospital, where his mother said he was undergoing surgery this afternoon.
The victim didn't tell his mother whether he recognized the men, she said.Wentworth Area detectives were investigating. No one was in custody.<!-- / message -->
thankfully he's alive, but damn i know the weather is rough but people getting more and more stupid it seems.
