ABC Chicago 7
July 31, 2015
Police say at least four people have been violently attacked in the past week on the city’s North Side, but ABC7 has learned about more cases in Lakeview and Wrigleyville.
Two victims say they were beaten, robbed and left seriously injured. Lucas Wittwer described how he was robbed and beaten steps from Wrigley Field.
“They punched me right in the side of the head and then I was on the ground,” Wittwer said.
Wittwer bears the scars of his assault and was briefly hospitalized.
“I check in and from there, I got three CT scans and an x-ray for my elbow,” Wittwer said.
Wittwer, a DePaul student, is the most recent victim of a series of brazen, late-night muggings in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
“I never expected it to happen to me, and if it happened to me, I expected it to happen somewhere else, not next to Wrigley Field, in that nice of an area,” Wittwer said.