Man steals and threatens staff with knife at store, Chicago IL
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WeaponsAs discussed during the dispatch call, a man was reported at the Family Dollar store near South Michigan in Chicago stealing and threatening staff with a knife. He fled northbound on Michigan wearing a multicolored jacket and a ski mask.
Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 09
Listen to dispatch call
02:39
Transcript:
00:00
I am getting a call of a person with a knife near South Michigan at the Family Dollar store.
00:10
(name withheld) states inside the store stealing and threatening an employee, an employee armed with a knife.
00:17
It's a male.
00:18
He's wearing a multicolored jacket.
00:24
Nothing further.
00:33
A unit to tag along with 513 on this call of a person with a knife at the Family Dollar, near South Michigan.
00:43
(name withheld) states they have a male wearing a multicolored jacket.
00:48
He's stealing, making threats towards the staff, and he has a knife.
00:58
Anyone can join 513 on that person with a knife call?
01:02
What, fourteen thirty-eight South Michigan?
01:10
Okay, at 0513, stand by.
01:16
Five hundred eighty-one Adam.
01:18
Five hundred eighty-one Adam.
01:22
You can show me a system coming from 130th.
01:27
I appreciate it.
01:29
And 513, 581 Adam will join you on it, but he's coming from a distance.
01:38
Twenty-two twenty-one.
01:44
Forty-one.
01:47
Twenty-one.
01:49
She'll be going to Little Company with (name withheld) to Eighteenth.
01:55
And this has got to be from the Ashland job?
02:01
Yep, I know that.
02:04
Okay.
02:08
Five one three.
02:10
Five 13. All right, I'm here at Family Dollar.
02:15
Subject is uh,
02:17
He exited out, said he was heading somewhere northbound on Michigan.
02:22
A man wearing a ski mask.
02:25
All right, from that location on South Michigan, the male left, he's headed you said westbound?
02:34
No, I said northbound.
02:37
Northbound, ten four.
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Location mentioned:
S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60628
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