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Man carjacked in Bronzeville

About 2 a.m., the 26-year-old was buying items at the service window of a gas station in the 3100 block of South Michigan Avenue, when a black vehicle stopped near him and someone got out and pointed a gun at him.

By Sun-Times Wire

A woman was killed and an officer wounded during a shoot-out Apr. 3, 2022, in an Oak Forest grocery store. — A man was carjacked at gunpoint Jan. 21, 2021, in the 3100 block of South Michigan Avenue.

A man was carjacked Thursday morning in Bronzeville on the South Side.

About 2 a.m., the 26-year-old was buying items at the service window of a gas station in the 3100 block of South Michigan Avenue, when a black vehicle stopped near him and someone got out and pointed a gun at him, Chicago police said.

The armed man demanded his keys and cellphone, police said, and fled in his black Mercedes G-Wagon west on 31st Street.

No one was injured and Area One detectives are investigating.

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