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Two men shot in armed robberies blocks apart in Lake View East
Gunmen shot two men in separate robberies within blocks of each other in Lakeview overnight.
CHICAGO - A man was shot and two other people were beaten in a violent robbery Tuesday night in the Lake View East neighborhood.
The group was walking around 11:25 p.m. in the 600 block of West Buckingham Place when several armed men exited a vehicle and approached them demanding their belongings, police said.
The group refused and the attackers began punching them, police said.
One of the gunmen shot at the group, striking a 28-year-old man in the buttocks, police said.
He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was listed in fair condition.
The attackers took the woman's purse and the group's cellphones before fleeing the area, police said.
The man and woman, both 27, suffered bruising and swelling to the face but refused treatment at the scene, police said.
Justin Stewart, who lives on the block, heard the commotion.
"I heard a couple pops and didn't think much of it at first. Then we pulled out our phones, and sure enough before you know it, it was already on the Citizen app and the police scanner," Stewart said. "It's very scary. It's become very surreal to walk around at certain hours of the night, which years ago you wouldn't even have thought twice about, and now all of a sudden 11:30 is almost too late to be out and about here in Chicago."
No one is in custody as Area Three detectives investigate.
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Man shot, 2 others beaten in Lake View East robbery
A man was shot and two other people were beaten in a violent robbery Tuesday night in the Lake View East neighborhood.