Police in Chicago are hunting for three attackers who robbed a woman at gunpoint in broad daylight in an affluent, leafy district of the city.
The attack was recorded on a Ring camera, overlooking the street.
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Footage showed the woman walking along North Seely Avenue, where homes are currently selling for $1.2 million, at 3pm on Sunday.
A black car approaches, and three masked people in hoodies jump out of the car – one of them aiming a gun at the woman.
The trio shoves the screaming woman to the ground, appearing to kneel on her as they steal her possessions.
Twenty seconds later, they run back to the waiting car and speed off.
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They took the woman’s fanny pack, which contained her wallet, keys, and phone, CWB Chicago reported.
The terrified woman is left howling on the ground, before shakily getting up and walking away. No arrests have yet been made.
Bill Pollard, who lives on the block, told FOX 32 Chicago there are increasing reports of crime, in an area that previously was seen as very quiet.
‘In the last couple of weeks, I think, since late August, from everywhere from Armitage to Wolcott, to almost 4000 north, in this kind of area, it seems like two, three people, a car and a gun, and someone jumping out,’ he said.
A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department said on Tuesday that ‘detectives have created a crime pattern with these offenders’ – but that it was difficult to track down the perpetrators because victims struggled to identify or describe their attackers.
‘So we’re asking for the public to step forward and help us identify these individuals,’ the department said.
Marna Goldwin, who lives in Lakeside, told NBC News that local people are willing to assist, but police need to do more.
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