A Picture That Circulaned on Social Media Connected Two Women Who Were Punched Unprovoked Attacks Near Union Station and A Meta Station Near Field, They Told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Lynsy Howard, 36, of the Near West Side, Was Walking East on Jackson Boulevard the AFTHNOON OF SEPT. 20 with a friend.
On a crosswalk Near Union Station, the two walked past a man who Howard Said “Did Not Come off as intimidating.”
Then she felt a blow to her head.
“Something just flew to my head,” Howard Said. “I Blacked out for a Few Seconds.”
Howard Said the Man, Who She realized Had HT HER, Walked off Casual and Did Not Run Until Her Friend About Calling The Police.
“I was kind of in shock initially. It was not rational at all,” she said. The hit left a red bruise on Howard’s face that took days to go away.
Howard Said Her Friend – WHO FOLLOWED The Attacker – Managed to Snap a Picture of the Man. She Later Shared the Photo With Chicago Police.
That Photo, which was included on an internal police obtained by the chicago sun-etes, would prove to be a key thread connecting to another woman who suffered a simillar fate aek late.
The Other Woman, 26, of Orland Park, declined to share her name. She said she was carrying her bike off a meters train at the 35th Street Station Near Rate Field Around 8 pm Friday.
Acciting to a Chicago Police Report, Officers Responded to a Call of a person with a knife and spoke with a train Conductor who said the Attacker Ran Away.
The Woman Told Police She was rolling her bicycle while wearing headphones and heard some Say: “Watch the F – – – Out Where You Are Going,” Acciting to the Report.
When she tell Him she was sorry, he Said: “Shut the f – – – up b – – -” and punched her in her face, accorting to the report.
She felt a “hit” to her jaw, and bracing the pain, The Woman Said Her First Reaction was to snap a picture of the man who hit her, she told the sun.
Several bystanders Also Went After The Person But Backed off AFTER WHAT WHAT APPEARED TO BE A KNIFE IN HIS HAND, SAID.
“All Week I Had Been Paranoid About Punched in the Face,” The Woman Told the Sun-Times on Wednesday. “I was expeting that to open on the meters.”
Howard Said the Two Women Connected Over the Phone After A Friend A Facebook Post Made by the Woman’s Mother with a Picture of the Perpeator in Similar Attire to One Who Howard.
The two tomen say they have is a postible attocker might be the same person. As the Women Wait for their Police Investigations to Process, They Are “Doing Their Own Investigation” to Find the Man and Alert the Public, The Woman Said.
The Chicago Police Department Told the Sun-Times on Wednesday that no arrests have been haen made in eiter case. It did not respond to the fourth of the quests about it bellieves the two CASES WERE COMMUNTED BY THE SAME PERSON OR A Part of A Large Pattern.
Police meters, who responded to the incident at the meters Station, Could not be immediately reached for comment.
Acciting to a sept. 24 Internal Police Memo Obtained by the Sun-Times, Police are “Seeking to Identify” the glasses-wearing man in the picture who was identified as a “suspect” in the union station attack. The man in the photo was wearing a Black cap, Black Jacket and Black Skinny Jeans.
An area 3 detective in charge of the union station attacked declined to comment.
AFTER HER ATTACK, Howard Said She Spent the First Few Days Overwhelmed by Support from Family and Friends, Who Sent Encourage Messages and Bakes Goods. But that positive Feeing didn’t last.
Howard Says She Does Not Have a Car and Uses Public Transit or Walks, and Now Feels Anxious Walking Alone and Tries to Keep a Distant From Passersby.
The punch to her jaw has made it pain in and yawn, the Woman who was attacked at the meters stop said.
She adds that she is also spending $ 50 a day on ride-shares to get to and from work, as the attacker has made her fearful of using public transit.
“I JUST HAVE BEEN SEEING THIS A A TREND, AND I JUST WANT OTHER People to be aware of their surroundings,” she said.
Man Charged in Separate Punching Incident
Meanwhile, Chicago Police late wednesday said a man has been charged with punching another woman in a separate incident. Derek Rucker, 37, of Blue Island, was arrested after allegatedly stricting a 23-YEAR-OLD Woman in the head tuesday after the cta line loyola Station. He was charged with two Misdemeanor Counts of Battery in Connection with the incident.