Univision News Crew Robbed in Chicago at Gunpoint While Reporting on Armed Robberies
A Univision News crew was robbed at gunpoint in Chicago moments before going live on air. This is the third attack on Chicago media in a month.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that “the journalists were reporting on a string of armed robberies across the city, including an armed carjacking of a woman Sunday night in the same block where the crew was robbed.”
According to police, two vehicles pulled up and three men wearing ski masks brandishing firearms exited the vehicles and robbed the crew near the CTA Blue Line Station at Milwaukee Avenue and Division Street.
The reporter and photographer were robbed of a camera, two equipment bags and a personal backpack.
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