“I Was Afraid For My Life” – 81-Year-Old Vietnam Veteran Sucker-Punched by Teens Before They Stole and Crashed His Car
A Vietnam veteran was sucker-punched by teens before they stole his 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe and crashed it after a short chase with police.
81-year-old Ernie Aimone was out delivering pizzas in the Jefferson Park neighborhood in Chicago last Wednesday night when a pack of teens ambushed him.
“They said, ‘Give me the keys’ and sucker-punched me from behind, hit me in the face. I was afraid for my life,” Ernie Aimone said to ABC 7 Chicago. “I got a daughter and a son. I gotta live for them.”
He said that he didn’t fight back. He lay face down in the street as the teens took off with his cell phone and car.
Several hours later,
