Carjacked SUV nearly ends up in Lake Michigan after South Side crash

The SUV was left hanging on the sting of the break wall close to 51st Road after police stated a girl was carjacked close to thirty fifth and State, the realm between Gauranteed Charge Area and Chicago Police Dept. headquarters.

“I simply do not feel secure round this space as a result of I simply hear issues that occur and we at all times get alerts on our IIT electronic mail about carjacks and stuff occurring,” IIT scholar Ayesha Qamer stated.

In accordance with police, the 40-year-old girl in that automotive complied with a carjacker’s calls for – at gunpoint – to get out of her automotive round 8:40 a.m. The suspect then drove north, ultimately leaping the park pathway.

“It’s one thing that’s a part of dwelling in right here day-to-day,” stated Elliot Delahaye.

Delahaye, who walks within the space to clear his thoughts, simply accomplished his first yr as a graduate scholar on the College of Chicago.

His pal, U of C graduate Dennis Shaoxiong Zheng, was gunned down outdoors their close by Hyde Park condominium constructing final November when somebody tried to steal his cellphone.

“He was the primary man I met in America,” Delahaye stated, “so these are issues I’d by no means take into account might occur to me.”

Police stated that after the suspect ditched the automotive, the offender assaulted a 26-year-old man within the space after which tried to carjack one other sufferer. It was at that time, responding officers arrested the suspect.

Thus far this yr, CPD information exhibits there have been 790 carjackings throughout town, up 4% from 758 for a similar interval final yr. Throughout the identical interval in 2020 there have been 484, and in 2019 simply 250 – which means carjackings have greater than tripled in three years.

“We reside in a socio-economic local weather the place that is one thing individuals really feel that that is the best choice for them, to rob my pal, to carjack somebody and drive it into the lake,” Delahaye stated. “So I’ve sympathy for either side.”

No expenses have been filed towards the suspect but. The 26-year-old man who he allegedly assaulted after ditching the stolen automotive was additionally taken to U of C hospital in truthful situation.