Surveillance video shows armed men trying to rob a street vendor selling food after she was ambushed in broad daylight.
The attack was one of two crimes involving street vendors. Both took place just a minute apart, just before 9 a.m. Friday on the city’s Northwest Side, Chicago police said.
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People in the neighborhood were on edge after the shocking crime. the video is difficult to watch as it shows armed men attack a woman selling tamales.
“Very surprising to me,” resident Steve Lukic said. “Such a nice lady. She’s out there every day. Even when it was zero degrees out, she’s out there selling her tamales. I can’t imagine something like that happening to her.”
The robbery happened near Milwaukee and Pulaski.
Security video shows the woman sitting alone at her food stand when a dark-colored SUV pulled up in the parking lot behind her.
Four men exited the vehicle. Chicago police said. two of them had guns.
The thieve can be seen rifling through the woman’s pockets.