CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A woman is in critical condition after she was shot in the back during a carjacking in Aurora, just one of several carjackings over the weekend in the western suburbs.
Police didn’t say if any the carjackings were connected.
In Aurora, a woman is in critical condition, but expected to survive, after she was shot during a carjacking around 4 p.m. Saturday in a Wendy’s parking lot. Police said she was eating in her car in the 1200 block of North Orchard Road when two gunmen drove up in a Ford Escape and pulled her out of her car, police said. One of the suspects shot her in the back and drove off in her red 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe.
Officers found the suspect’s Ford Escape in the parking lot, and learned the car had been carjacked in Dekalb County less than an hour earlier, police said, at East County Line Road and Barber Greene Road.
In Naperville, police briefly chased carjacking suspects after they stole a woman’s Dodge Charger at gunpoint Saturday afternoon in the 400 block of East Bailey Road, police said. Officers followed the car onto I-88, but stopped the pursuit near Midwest Road.
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Sunday morning in Elmhurst, a man was whipped by two suspects who tried to steal his car in the driveway of his home in the 500 block of North Emroy Avenue, police said in a social media post. The man struggled over the gun and gained control of it, later discovering it was a replica gun. The suspects left in his 2020 Toyota RAV 4.
Police in Chicago faced a steep rise in carjackings over the last year. In 2020, carjackings in Chicago more than doubled compared with the year before.
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