Police are investigating a robbery on Northwestern’s Chicago campus mentioned to have taken place Sunday morning, according to a Northwestern crime alert.
The incident, which took place within the 300 block of East Erie Street, was defined to both the Chicago and Northwestern police departments. Witnesses stated a man departed a close-by silver four-door Chevrolet at about nine a.M. Earlier than approaching someone on the street and forcibly doing away with their mobile telephone without the usage of a weapon. The guy then again to the silver Chevrolet, earlier than fleeing the scene eastbound on Erie Street.
The character turned into no longer injured and declined clinical assistance. Witnesses defined the man as about twenty years antique, sporting a black hooded jacket with dark jeans and Nike shoes with crimson soles.
Responding officers have not positioned the person or the car. Chicago police are leading the research by means of reviewing the cameras on the scene of the crime.
The theft follows a sequence of robust-arm robberies, which came about March 12 on the Chicago campus. One of the robberies from final month concerned men exiting a in addition-defined silver sedan earlier than punching a Pritzker School of Law student in the face and stealing his iPad.
There turned into any other series of robberies at the Chicago campus in October 2017, which resulted in extended safety features. At the time, UP leader Bruce Lewis attributed the crime spike to an normal boom of crime off campus within the preferred region of Chicago.
The 18th Ward of Chicago, which incorporates Northwestern’s Chicago campus, has suggested 112 robbery lawsuits in 2019 to this point. This is an increase of 87 percentage from the 60 stated via this time in 2015.
