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Carjackers targeted at least three vehicles in Chicago between Monday evening and the next morning on the South and Northwest sides.
About 5:30 p.m. Monday, a man was carjacked while brushing snow off his car in South Shore. The 62-year-old was clearing his 2016 Hyundai Sonata in the 2000 block of East 72nd Place when two males got out of a Toyota Camry that got stuck in snow, Chicago police said. The duo walked up to the man and stole his Hyundai.
About 5:20 a.m. Tuesday, a woman was carjacked as she entered her car in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. An armed male confronted her and demanded her keys in the 1400 block of East 72nd Street, police said. She complied, and the male drove off in her 2019 Ford Fusion. She was unharmed.
She was sitting in the passenger seat of a 2005 Honda Odyssey at a gas station in the 7600 block of South Harvard Street when a male armed with a handgun jumped in the driver’s seat.
A Chicago police supervisor filed a lawsuit against the city Tuesday alleging he was removed from a citywide police unit because he wouldn’t be pressured to have officers working under him make “illegal” stops and arrests.