Police in Chicago said a rideshare driver shot two armed robbers Saturday after completing a trip in the city’s West Side.
The driver dropped off a passenger in the North Lawndale neighborhood around 1 a.m., when a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman approached the driver at gunpoint, police said.
The robbers stole the 26-year-old passenger’s cellphone and then shot at the rideshare driver as they fled the scene. Authorities said the driver, a concealed carry license holder, shot back and struck the male robber in the leg and grazed the female robber’s arm. The male robber was taken to a hospital in good condition. The female robber declined medical attention.
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