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Armed thieves rob, carjack man with young trick-or-treater in Bridgeport: VIDEO
ABC 7 Chicago ^ | 11 01 2025 | Staff

Posted on 11/03/2025 6:02:25 AM PST by yesthatjallen

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Police hope surveillance video will help them find three armed robbery suspects.

They held up a 42-year-old man at gunpoint while he was out with a young trick-or-treater on Halloween.

Police said it happened around 3:16 p.m. Friday in the 2600-block of South Emerald Avenue in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood.

Video shows a man help a little girl out of the back seat of an SUV as she holds her orange trick-or-treat bucket.

They pair start to walk across the sidewalk when an armed man runs up to them and points his gun at the victim's face. He then hits the victim in the head with the gun.

A second man runs up and begins taking the victim's belongings.

While all this was happening, a third man got into the victim's car.

At least two of the robbers got away in the stolen vehicle, which police say was later found in the Lawndale neighborhood's 300-block of South Maplewood Avenue.

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(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bridgeport; carjack; chicago; halloween
Video at link.
1 posted on 11/03/2025 6:02:25 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Ah, who can forget the innocence and fun of Halloween night.


2 posted on 11/03/2025 6:04:08 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: yesthatjallen

But Prickless said there is no crime problem in Shitcago?


3 posted on 11/03/2025 6:07:50 AM PST by CapnJack ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

I live about 18 blocks south of there.
In a predominantly White , Irish ,Catholic neighborhood .
Halloween evening the streets were full of trick or treaters, mostly black groups of 5-10 led by women.
They clearly come from other neighborhoods and drive in and canvas the area.


4 posted on 11/03/2025 6:10:46 AM PST by daku
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To: daku

We live in the west suburbs and stories like this is why we are always carrying.

Both of us.

Always.

L


5 posted on 11/03/2025 6:12:13 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yes, it was them.


6 posted on 11/03/2025 6:13:24 AM PST by ThanhPhero
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To: yesthatjallen

According to the fat Prickster, Chicongo is the most peaceful and low crime dumpster neighborhood in America. They haven’t had a homicide death there in decades.


7 posted on 11/03/2025 6:17:41 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Another day of DemonRAT shutdown another great day for Chunky "Raw Cheeseburger" Schumer.)
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To: CapnJack

‘We’re not a violent city’: Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4350323/posts


8 posted on 11/03/2025 6:18:06 AM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Lurker

Count us in!


9 posted on 11/03/2025 6:18:37 AM PST by NeverTyranny
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To: yesthatjallen

Sad to hear about the Dad and daughter going through this experience. This was at 3.30 in the afternoon, sun still shining. The 3 Thugs must have been lying in wait to ambush a few harmless, well heeled trick or treaters, then speed out to the nearest freeway. This is the biggest reason there are much fewer trick or treaters than 15 years ago.


10 posted on 11/03/2025 6:25:30 AM PST by lee martell
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To: daku

A white Irish Catholic neighborhood on the near South Side??


11 posted on 11/03/2025 6:25:51 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Yes its called Bridgeport educate yourself.


12 posted on 11/03/2025 6:28:30 AM PST by medical conservative
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To: yesthatjallen

Halloween defines the dems today: Assuming an identity, going door to door taking from each according to their ability, and/or performing acts of violence for spite is the pure idea of “Trick or Treat!”


13 posted on 11/03/2025 6:36:06 AM PST by Brandonmark (November 5, 2024 - A New Day in America!Adam Schiff PARDONED criminal!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Prickster’s nephew?


14 posted on 11/03/2025 6:37:05 AM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t believe your lying eyes because the mayor and governor say this is not happening.


15 posted on 11/03/2025 6:40:12 AM PST by Dave911
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To: Sirius Lee

Ah, who can forget the innocence and fun of Halloween night.


Long Beach, Cal in the 50s. Kids went trick or treating without parents hovering around. Some treats were home made and some gave out apples (without razor blades). A different world and a different time.


16 posted on 11/03/2025 6:56:16 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: PGR88

Canaryville, we just had an illegal teen shoot up a group of young teens last month


17 posted on 11/03/2025 7:30:02 AM PST by daku
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To: yesthatjallen

SHITCAGO


18 posted on 11/03/2025 7:53:49 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: yesthatjallen

The dad looks Asian. There is a gifted and talented school nearby with 77% Asian students.

The scumbags look black. A nearby school where the car was found is low performing even by Chicago standards and has a 90% black student body.

Geez, obviously the youths were just needing a ride back for church service that evening and the dad let them use his car.


19 posted on 11/03/2025 9:38:34 AM PST by bgill
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To: lee martell

Heck, our kids didn’t go door to door 25 years ago. We let them go to the city sponsored little carnival with booths inside the city barn and by tradition, kids would go next door to trick or treat at the nursing home. Of course, first thing an elderly lady stole their bags and refused to give them back so had to be taken to her room. Scared the kids but poor thing was probably scared, too.


20 posted on 11/03/2025 9:43:24 AM PST by bgill
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