Nine months after a woman was forced to her knees and robbed while dropping her daughter off at a West Town daycare center, she saw the man she says did it walking down the street as she accompanied her daughter to a neighborhood park this month, prosecutors say. She called 911.
Now, Rudolph Pitts, a 54-year-old man who has devil horns tattooed to his forehead, is charged with the nine-month-old crime after Chicago police found him hiding in a trash dumpster.
The 32-year-old woman was targeted around 8:45 a.m. on July 30, 2025, as she dropped her daughter off at a daycare in the 2100 block of West Superior Street. As she walked away from her car, she heard it beeping and turned to find Pitts holding her purse, which she had left inside the vehicle, prosecutors said in a detention filing. They said she chased him into a nearby gangway, where he shoved her to the ground…