Two men face a variety of charges in a holdup of five people who were helping a friend move on the South Side this week, police said.
The robbers threatened to shoot a six-year-old girl, pistol-whipped one of the robbery victims and critically injured a pedestrian as they tried to flee police, authorities said.
Jarrod Johnson, 26, and Lee Young Jr., 19, both of the 7500 block of South Normal Avenue, both face three counts of armed robbery. Johnson also faces charges of resisting arrest, and citations of fleeing from police, driving without a license and without insurance and failure to reduce speed in a crash that followed the robbery.
John
son also faces a charge of violating parole. He was released from Menard Correctional Center in February after serving 3Ô�šÃ”š½ years of a six-year sentence for unlawful use of a weapon, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections. He previously served time in prison on drug and robbery charges.
Johnson was ordered held without bond and Young was given a bond of $900,000 in a hearing in Cook County Bond Court before Judge James R. Brown midday today.
The five victims were in an alley in the 5200 block of South Michigan Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Thursday when Johnson and Young pulled up in a car, got out, and one of them pulled out a handgun, according to a police incident notification.
Johnson and Young forced all five people into the victims' friend's home, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. The two robbers threatened to shoot a 6-year-old girl if the girl's father did not turn over money and a cell phone, but at the same time, one of the victims slipped aw
ay and called police, police said.
One of the victims, an off-duty Cook County Sheriff's officer, thought the robbers were going to hurt his family and tried to disarm the gunman, but was pistol-whipped, police said.
As the robbers fled the home, officers from the Wentworth District arrived on the scene and tried to follow them, according to police. The officers briefly lost sight of the getaway car, but area residents told them that the robbers had struck a pedestrian and then crashed into a tree at 47th Street and Lake Park Avenue, police said.
The male pedestrian was later taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition with multiple breaks to both legs and massive trauma, police said.
Young and Johnson tried to flee on foot, but were caught by police, who found a stolen handgun and money from the robbery, according to police.
