21-Jul-17 – A midnight run to 7-Eleven cost a Marina City resident his iPhone. According to Chicago police, the 27-year-old man went out for cigarettes just after midnight on June 23. He walked to the 7-Eleven at the corner of State & Hubbard, about two blocks away. On the way back, two black males, one described as “clean-cut skinny” and the other wearing a blue Chicago Cubs jersey, started talking to him and following him. One of the men asked the victim where he lived.

When they got to Marina City, the two men walked in with the victim. That’s when a third man, six-feet-four-inches tall, heavyset, with short black hair, wearing a white shirt and red shorts, approached the victim and said, according to police, “What do you have for collateral?”

He then lifted his shirt to show what looked to the victim like a .45 caliber handgun. Feeling threatened, the victim handed over an iPhone worth $600, a credit card and a debit card. The three suspects then left the building. The report does not specify where exactly at the complex the incident happened.

When police arrived at 5:35 a.m., a guard told them the suspects are seen on security video leaving Marina City at 3:58 a.m. The officers, according to their report, did not watch the video. They say the victim’s description of the incident does not explain the four-hour gap from when he left for 7-Eleven and when the suspects left after robbing him – and, says their report, “doesn’t explain the relationship between victim and offenders.”

The suspects are all six-feet or taller. The man in the Cubs jersey had black dreadlocks in a ponytail.