Another random act in crime free Chicago. (Sarcasm)
Via WGNTV:
Police are seeking two suspects in the brutal beating of a woman who was riding the CTA Blue Line yesterday morning.
The beating happened around 10 a.m Thursday on a CTA Blue Line train headed west, approaching the Kedzie-Homan stop.
19-year-old DePaul student Jessica Hughes was on her way home to Berwyn from a morning class and says after a large group of people got off the train at the UIC Halstead stop, a man moved to the seat in front of her, turned around and attacked.
“He grabs me, pushes me to the floor and starts beating on my head repeatedly,” Jessica said.
The man wanted Jessica’s phone. It was in her pocket. A woman who was with the attacker jumped in and punched Jessica in the nose, breaking it.
All the while, two male passengers stood by and watched.
“He kept beating on me. I’m yelling help to the other people and no one came “
The suspects did not get Jessica’s phone. They ran off the train.
The attackers were captured on surveillance video.
“I’m just hoping everything they need is on that video,” Jessica said. “And they’re able to get those people that did this to me.”She described the attacker as an African American man in his mid-20’s. She says he had facial hair, was wearing a blue Ralph Lauren polo hat, a grey hoodie and baggy pants that were sagging below his waist.
She says the woman, also African American in her mid-20’s was extremely thin, with long black hair.