Posted on 02/04/2024 5:19:11 AM PST by marktwain
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A would-be robbery victim with a concealed carry license got into a shootout with a suspect on the Far North Side early Tuesday morning.
The 23-year-old man was walking in the 5400-block of North Winthrop Avenue in the city's Edgewater neighborhood just after 4:20 a.m., when a white sedan and dark-colored SUV approached, CPD said.
A male suspect got out of one of the cars, pulled out a gun and demanded the man give him his belongings, police said.
The victim, who has a Firearm Owners Identification card and CCL, also pulled out a gun, and there was a shootout, police said.
The man was not injured, and the suspect got back into the SUV empty-handed, according to police.
Both vehicles drove away, traveling south.
It was not immediately clear if the suspect was injured.
No one was in custody later Tuesday morning, and Area Three detectives are investigating.
Two other men were robbed at gunpoint during similar attacks that happened in less than an hour in Edgewater and West Ridge.
The first robbery occurred around 3:40 a.m. when two armed men approached a 45-year-old man inside a vehicle in the 2100-block of West Lunt Avenue and demanded his belongings, Chicago police said.
After the man complied, the robbers got into a silver SUV and sped away, police said.
About half an hour later, two gunmen exited separate vehicles in the 6100-block of North Wolcott Avenue and robbed a 29-year-old man sitting in his vehicle, police said.
Police are investigating the possibility the three attacks are linked.
“Mine doesn’t have an expiration date.”
Oh it has one. They just don’t put it on the card. That would make too much damned sense. Instead the ISP is “required by law” to mail a notice 90 days prior to expiring.
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I made an error. It’s 180 days prior.
Sorry.
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Hell, that’s one of my best “get out of the house” lines I have! …. Honey, I need more range time…
Did the assailants have a FOID and CCL? Asking for a friend…
The victim, who has a Firearm Owners Identification card and CCL, can easily be found by authorities and disarmed when it is discovered that he is a likely Trump voter.
Any requirement for a permit or license is a clear infringement upon the rights recognized in the second amendment.
No one infringes on the bad guy’s 2A. Just the rest of us.
Use a blunderbuss pistol ... kitch, cool factor ... and assuming your attacker survives he has a story to tell about that time he got shot, rather than be storyless and forever upet.
... upset....
I made my first trip there in 1986. Did not see much of the city, was in meetings most of the time. It was a terrible feeling of being captured. Flew in, hotel bus picked me up at the airport, nice hotel, had our meetings, bused back to airport and flew home. Felt helpless and out of place.
On a later trip I had an unplanned extended trip, spent weekend in Chicago with nothing much to do. A good friend of mine from Knoxville, TN was there for the weekend too. He suggested we go see Downtown Chicago. We took hotel shuttle bus to the L and took it downtown. We went to the Museum of Natural History and some other places, interesting. Then we went back by the L and caught the shuttle bus back to the hotel.
I spent 2 days at the National Hardware Show, and then flew home.
Never had trouble traveling by car, even in big cities. For a while I traveled 11 states on business trips. But public transportation conveys dependence that I never liked.
Never did like big cities. Felt helpless from lack of knowledge of the local scheme of things. I avoid them if at all possible. Even here in Texas. I’ve only been to Houston 2 times. One I flew in, the other I drove. But I never had a problem with DFW or even San Antonio.
Cities that a river runs through them are always difficult to travel through. Even smaller cities like Ft. Smith, AR. That town has few bridges and only the locals have problems going from point A to B. Since the advent of cell phones and GPS navigation, it is not as bad, but even GPS lies. Might as well turn it off at the DFW airport. Am sure it is intentional there.
I am glad I live in Texas, am 76, don’t travel far any more.
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