Police Look For Man Who Knocked Over Senior Citizen On A Bicycle In Edgewater – CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) — A horrible assault, sparked by a paper bag.

Quick meals trash led to a punch that’s tough to observe. CBS 2’s Tara Molina studies from Edgewater the place police are on the hunt for that man who knocked out a senior citizen on a motorcycle.

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That’s the way it begins. A person drops a bag out of his automobile and into the road. The biker pulls up and places the bag again on the automobile and that’s when it will get ugly.

Kenmore and Hollywood. It’s the place it began Wednesday afternoon, simply after 2:30. On surveillance video, a gray Audi stopped within the intersection. A bag dropped out of the passenger aspect window. An individual walks via site visitors with a stroller adopted by a person on a motorcycle, who picks the bag up and places it on the hood of the Audi.

That’s when the passenger opens the door, walks in direction of the bicyclist and throws a punch, knocking him and his bike down in the midst of the street. He then will get again within the Audi that turns to get away.

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It’s too disturbing to indicate, however that’s when the motive force of the darkish Jeep Cherokee, in the proper lane, tries to maneuver across the altercation, as an alternative working over the biker with the Jeep’s again tire. His helmet crushed.

In keeping with investigators, the 69-year-old man who was hit after which run over was rushed to Illinois Masonic Hospital, the place he was capable of inform Chicago Law enforcement officials all the things he remembered, along with his reminiscence leaping from that automobile door opening to mendacity on the street, bleeding.

The person who punched him and the motive force of the Jeep each left the intersection and left him there. Police are working to trace down each proper now, calling this aggravated battery of a senior citizen.

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CBS 2 has discovered that man’s helmet made all of the distinction and he’s doing okay as of Friday. Nonetheless, nobody is in custody.