RAVENSWOOD — Police are searching for a driver who used a baseball bat to attack two women walking along a residential street with a baby stroller Tuesday morning.
Around 11:27 a.m. Tuesday, a woman pushing her daughter in a stroller was walking with her sister in the 4500 block of North Mozart Street after getting coffee at Beans & Bagels nearby, according to police and one of the victims.
“This woman pulled over in her car and yelled out the window, ‘What would you do if I came and beat your ass with a with this bat!,’” the mother, who asked her name not be used, told Block Club. “My sister and I laughed and thought she was joking. And then she got out with this bat that was in the front seat of the car and ran towards us.”
The sisters did not know the driver and were shocked when she ran at them with the bat, the woman said.
“We thought maybe it was some stupid kind like TikTok trend or something, and we still thought it was a joke. But then she started swinging at us, and I think she hit me first a couple of times and then started swinging it my sister,” the woman said.
A neighbor on the block who works from home told Block Club she was near her front windows when she heard the commotion and pulled out her phone to record the attack. The incident lasted less than a minute, said the neighbor, who also asked her name not be used.
Once the driver saw the neighbor recording, she stopped attacking, got back into her car and drove away, the woman and neighbor said.
“My daughter was in her stroller so I kind of backed away to try to see if I could run behind to get the stroller and get my daughter out of there,” the mother said. “[The attack] was maybe, like, 45 seconds long, and then thankfully this neighbor, this woman came out of her house videotaping and I think that’s what caused this woman to run back to her car and drive.”
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The victims and the neighbor called police, giving officers a partial license plate of the attacker’s car, they said. The neighbor also posted about the attack on a neighborhood Facebook group, she said.
Detectives are still investigating the attack and no one was in custody Tuesday afternoon, police said. They had no further description of the woman but said the car she was driving was a white sedan.
The mother suffered bruises to her fingers and arm and her sister went to the hospital to get her wrist examined, she said.
“Her wrist is really, really swollen. So she’s saying she might have broken it. But we’re all okay otherwise,” the victim said. “And thank God, my daughter wasn’t hit at all. And she was actually sleeping when it was going on. So afterwards when I went to make sure she was okay, she was still asleep. Thank God she was totally fine.”
The victims and neighbors are asking for anyone with information about the driver to contact police at 312-746-6554.
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