1 killed in Chicago Louis Vuitton store smash-and-grab burglary
Five people are injured and one is dead after a smash-and-grab burglary at a Chicago Louis Vuitton boutique Thursday. The person killed was a bystander.
One man was killed and five injured in a smash-and-grab burglary in Chicago Thursday. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI UPI
Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Five people are injured and one is dead after a smash-and-grab burglary at a Chicago Louis Vuitton boutique Thursday.
The five injured are allegedly involved in the burglary, and the person who died was an innocent bystander, police said.
The burglary took place at the Louis Vuitton boutique at 919 Michigan Ave., and a crash that killed the driver of another car was at Michigan Avenue and Ohio Street.
Police said a group of suspects crashed a pick-up truck into the Louis Vuitton store.
A bystander's cell phone video shows a group of people dressed in dark clothing going into the store and then running out with stolen items, according to ABC7 Chicago.
The people then got into other vehicles that were either parked nearby or that pulled up. All the cars then sped away.
Police said one of the getaway vehicles, a Kia Stinger, fled on Michigan Avenue, where it crashed with a Honda CR-V at Ohio Street.
The driver of the Honda was a man in his 40s not involved in the burglary. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Five suspects from the Kia were taken into custody and taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Police said another getaway vehicle fled southbound on DuSable Lake Shore Drive when it lost control, and four suspects fled on foot. Two were taken into custody, and two others escaped, police said. Stolen goods from the burglary were found in the vehicle.
Last month, a group of 10 men in multiple cars allegedly took almost $130,000 worth of Louis Vuitton merchandise from a Nordstrom department store a few blocks from the Magnificent Mile on Grand Avenue, according to the Chicago Tribune. There have been no arrests in that case.
"These are not victimless crimes, these are dangerous crimes, and the people who continue to perpetrate them need to be prosecuted and jailed for lengthy sentences," Alderman Brian Hopkins told ABC7. "We are done tolerating it."
