A 22-year-old man is accused of brutally attacking and robbing a 27-year-old man in River North, but a judge rejected prosecutors’ detention petition and sent him home on an ankle monitor.
Prosecutors say Aman Terry attacked the victim around 10:22 p.m. on August 21 after the man dropped off a friend at LaSalle and Huron. Surveillance video captured Terry, wearing a black sweatshirt with a blue flame design, stopping the victim in the 700 block of North LaSalle and demanding to know what was in his pockets, prosecutors said in a detention petition.
An accomplice yanked the man’s necklace from his neck. Terry allegedly punched the victim in the face, dragged him toward the entrance of a vacant storefront, and demanded his phone’s passcode. When the victim refused, Terry took his Dior sunglasses and camera and kept punching him in the face and body, prosecutors said. The victim’s head hit the concrete and Terry allegedly pressed him against the wall with his forearm and continued the beating.
The victim tried to retrieve his necklace but only got the chain back, not the pendant. Prosecutors said he pleaded for the pendant, which had sentimental value, and even offered the attackers $50 to return his belongings. Instead, prosecutors say, Terry took the $50, punched the victim in the face again, and left…