Two Chicago teenagers have been indicted on one misdemeanor count each for allegedly conspiring with others to brutally attack a couple, causing the female victim to suffer a miscarriage.
On a Friday evening, a 41-year-old woman who gave her name only as Nina was walking home with her husband after a date. Nina had taken advantage of the opportunity to dress up for her husband, donning a dress and heels.
“We believe in faith, but it’s not what’s supposed to happen, so we don’t know why this happened.”
At about 8:30 p.m., the couple arrived at the intersection of Grand Avenue and McClurg Court in Streeterville when they were suddenly attacked from behind by a group of teenagers. “It all happened from behind us. First someone came up to my husband and hit him in the head,” Nina said of her husband.
Her husband begged her to run, but the attackers prevented her from doing so, and one of the girls allegedly dragged her to the ground and pulled her hair so hard that it ripped strands from her scalp.
“I started screaming and she started spraying pepper spray in my face and eyes.” Nina He claimed.
Nina was punched and kicked repeatedly in the stomach. When her husband tried to protect her, the gang attacked her and Nina was killed. Fox 32 He was held down by “more than 10 people.”
After police arrived on scene, the suspect fled, but officers were able to arrest two individuals believed to be involved in the assault, a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, both of whom were charged with one count of misdemeanor assault and are not currently in police custody.
Councilman Brian Hopkins has since contacted the State Attorney’s Office and hopes the charges will be upgraded to felony offenses. “Both victims suffered serious injuries,” he told FOX 32.
Indeed, there appears to have been a third victim in the attack, as Nina was two weeks pregnant at the time. She later learned that she had lost her baby.
“We believe in faith, but it’s not what’s supposed to happen, so I don’t know why this happened,” she said.
Nina and her husband are still trying to make sense of their attack, which appears to have no motive. “They didn’t steal anything. They’re saying, ‘These streets are ours. They belong to us. You shouldn’t be walking around,'” she recalled.
“They dragged my dress along the ground and said, ‘These streets belong to us. You can’t walk around prancing around in your little dresses.’ They were saying things that made no sense to me because they don’t know me personally.”
Police told FOX 32 the incident remains under investigation. They reached out to the State Attorney’s Office inquiring about whether other charges may be filed but did not receive a response.
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