Surveillance video captured a violent Boystown street robbery early Sunday, showing two men on bicycles fail to snatch one victim’s phone before chasing down and robbing a scooter rider who stopped nearby.
The attacks unfolded around 1:15 a.m. in the 700 block of West Cornelia Avenue. The footage shows the robbers riding along the sidewalk when one turns and crosses the street, cutting off a pedestrian who was looking at his phone. The robber grabs the victim’s phone and they wrestle over it, but the man eventually breaks free and runs away, screaming.
While that was happening, a scooter rider stopped in the street just steps away. The second robber moved in to block him from intervening. Once the first victim escaped, both attackers turned on the scooter rider, chasing him across the street until he fell. They then attacked and robbed him before leaving on foot. Both of their bikes were left at the robbery scene…