A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with armed robbery in Chicago after police apprehended him just moments after a man was robbed in Bucktown on Tuesday evening. There are suspicions that he may also be involved in an armed carjacking that took place in Humboldt Park shortly before the robbery in Bucktown.
The incident in Bucktown involved three males who approached a 21-year-old man in the 1700 block of North Paulina at around 8:14 p.m. The robbers assaulted the man from behind, indicated they were armed, and proceeded to steal his belongings. The Chicago Police Department reported that the suspects were described as three Black males wearing masks, with one in a green hoodie, another in a pink hoodie, and the third in a black hoodie. Law enforcement officers managed to apprehend the suspect wearing the pink hoodie in the 1700 block of West North Avenue and charged him with the robbery, while the other two suspects managed to escape.
Shortly before the Bucktown robbery, a 58-year-old man was carjacked in Humboldt Park. The victim recounted that two males approached him, brandished firearms, and demanded the keys to his Ford F-150 as he was walking towards his parked vehicle. The assailants then forced the man to the ground and instructed him not to look at them. Despite this, the victim identified the carjackers as a Black male and a Hispanic male, both around 15 years old.
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