Aug 4, 2009 9:04 am US/Central
Man Beaten, Robbed On Boystown Strip
Unknown If Robbery Is Connected To Attacks In Lincoln Park
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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A man was beaten and robbed of his cell phone in an attack on Halsted Street near Buckingham Place in the Boystown neighborhood.
CBS
Police are searching for the suspects who robbed and beat a man as he walked early Monday in the Boystown neighborhood.
The 24-year-old man was walking at 3341 N. Halsted St., near Buckingham Place, around 4:50 a.m. Monday when four men attacked him, police said.
"They began punching him about the face and body and they took his cell phone,'' police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez said. The assailants didn't take any money, he said.
The man was able to get away and went home. He suffered swelling and declined to go to a hospital, according to the officer.
One of the attackers was wearing black clothing, and clothing on the other three was not known, according to Perez. All the attackers were between the ages of 20 and 30, Perez said.
Since Thursday, there have been at least five similar attacks in the Lincoln Park neighborhood about a mile and a half south. In those incidents, a group of at least four attackers sneaked up on the victims from behind and beat them savagely as they robbed them.
Those attacks happened Thursday in the 600 block of West Fullerton Parkway and the 2100 block of North Stockton Drive; Saturday in the 2000 block of North Cleveland Avenue and the 300 block of West Webster Avenue; and Tuesday at Fullerton and Cannon drives. All of the victims were young men walking alone.
The address where the attack occurred is outside Minibar, one of many gay bars and nightclubs that line the Boystown strip on Halsted Street. It is not known whether police are investigating if sexual orientation could have played any role in the motive for the attack.
The STNG Wire contributed to this report.
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