Two Chicago males who prosecutors say slammed a 58-year-old man to the bottom throughout a New 12 months’s Day theft after which tried to flee on the CTA Brown Line have now been sentenced to jail.
Kobe Lee, 21, and Felix Lopez, 20, focused the person shortly after he left a restaurant in Albany Park round 10 p.m. on January 1, 2024. After they reached the 4800 block of North Troy Road, the robbers allegedly picked the person up and body-slammed him onto the sidewalk, inflicting his head to smack in opposition to the concrete, prosecutors mentioned.
In response to detention petitions filed within the case, Lee and Lopez rifled via the sufferer’s pockets for valuables. When he tried to withstand, they repeatedly punched him within the head and face earlier than strolling away, leaving him on the bottom.
A witness, who referred to as 911, adopted the pair and gave police detailed descriptions — together with one suspect’s distinctive Scooby Doo jacket.
Chicago law enforcement officials discovered Lee and Lopez about 40 minutes in a while the Kedzie Brown Line platform. Lee was sporting the cartoon-covered jacket, and Lopez matched the outline of the second robber. Prosecutors mentioned the sufferer instantly recognized them because the attackers.
Court docket information present Lopez had been launched from custody simply two days earlier after being charged with shoplifting at Macy’s on State Road. Lee had been paroled six months earlier after serving half of a three-year sentence for possessing a stolen motorized vehicle.
On Monday, Lopez pleaded responsible to theft and obtained a four-year sentence from Choose Michael Hood. Lee pleaded responsible earlier this yr to theft and aggravated battery in trade for a five-year sentence from Hood. Each males will serve about half of their sentences earlier than being eligible for parole.
