Chicago – Police are questioning a person of interest in a series of robberies committed by a man who was armed with a machete on the city’s Northwest Side.
These robberies have been happening in the evening and nighttime hours in the city’s Logan Square, Hermosa, Belmont-Cragin, Albany Park, Avondale and Irving Park neighborhoods.
The latest incident happened on the 3700 block of North Troy on Sunday night when a man was confronted by the suspect.
Police said the man threw his wallet to distract the robber.
The suspect got away in a gray vehicle, driven by someone else, according to police. The man was not injured.
So far, there have been eight different robberies when the victim said a machete was used.
One victim, who asked to remain anonymous, said he encountered the suspect on the night of Memorial Day in the 2800-block of North Francisco Avenue.
He said a man in a dark hoodie charged at him with a machete and then stood over him as he fell.”I felt wind from a machete swing on my face.
He said, ‘I’m going to chop you into pieces. I’m going to kill you. Give me your cash.
Give me your wallet, or I’m going to kill you. Like, give me all your money,'” the victim recalled.
He said he didn’t have his wallet and pleaded with his attacker, who patted him down, took his phone and then fled in a silver or gray sedan.
“It was nuts. It was scary,” he said. “I thought I was going to die for sure.”
In the most recent incident, a 52-year-old man walking on the sidewalk in the 3700-block of North Troy Street at about 9 p.m. Sunday night, police said.
