Chicago carjacking: Man forced out of car at gunpoint at Edgebrook gas station

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team WLS logo
Thursday, January 4, 2024
VIDEO: Man carjacked at Edgebrook gas station
Chicago police said a man was carjacked at gunpoint at an Edgebrook gas station on Central Avenue Thursday.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A surveillance camera captured a carjacking in the Edgebrook neighborhood Thursday morning, Chicago police said.

A 28-year-old man was in a gas station in the 6300-block of North Central Avenue at about 12:50 a.m. when two male suspects armed with handguns forced the man out of his vehicle, police said.

The suspects struck the victim in the head with a handgun and fled in the victim's Audi SUV, police said.

The victim was transported to Resurrection Hospital in good condition.

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Area Five detectives are investigating and no one is in custody.

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