Video shows armed muggers ambush woman in ‘safe’ Chicago neighborhood

Surprising doorbell video reveals a girl repeatedly screaming in terror as she’s ambushed at gunpoint by a trio of masked muggers in a leafy Chicago neighborhood.

Ring footage from Sunday reveals the 45-year-old girl casually strolling by means of a tree-lined avenue within the Windy Metropolis’s Lakeview space when a darkish sedan all of the sudden stops within the highway.

As she continues innocently strolling, three hooded and masked males all of the sudden race out and seize her — with at the least one pointing a gun.

Video captures the terrified screams of a Chicago girl getting ambushed at gunpoint in a “secure” neighborhood.

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The footage began with the 45-year-old sufferer innocently strolling down a tree-lined Lakeview avenue.

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The girl falls to the road and begins screaming in terror, her anguished cries persevering with all through the remaining 45 seconds of the clip.

“What would you like?” she screams because the trio steals objects from her, standing over her and ignoring her screams for greater than 15 seconds earlier than they race again to the automobile and tear off.

The trio of masked robbers ignored their sufferer’s screams as they stole from her earlier than fleeing within the ready automobile.

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After they flee, the sufferer stays screaming on the bottom for at the least 10 seconds earlier than lastly getting again to her toes.

“Assist me! Assist me!” she screams, whereas persevering with to wail in terror.

The crooks — at the least considered one of whom was armed — stole her fanny pack containing her cellphone, pockets and keys, Chicago cops advised WGN9.

Though three muggers have been seen within the clip, cops have been looking 4 suspects, with one seemingly the getaway driver.

The mugging comes as Chicago continues to be blighted by rising gun crime. Even so, the brazen daylight assault rattled neighbors within the space that that they had assumed can be secure from such violence.

“It’s terrifying! It’s the center of the day they usually attacked her,” one resident, Megan Hasse, advised NBC5 Chicago.

One other, Invoice Pollard, advised WGN9 that he “by no means would’ve anticipated something like this on this type of a block” with “tremendous fantastic neighbors.”

“It type of takes a little bit little bit of the shine off of this bubble that you simply typically really feel that you simply reside in, proper? , children play within the park, neighbors strolling up and down the road,” Pollard advised the native outlet.

Now, he stated, “slightly than simply strolling round, you will have to look over your shoulder from time to time.”