It's the second robbery this month involving a Chicago news crew.
were filming just before 05:00 on Monday in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, in the city’s West Town neighborhood when three men wearing ski masks and brandishing firearms robbed them at gunpoint.
“They were approached with guns and robbed. Mainly it was personal items, and they took a camera,” the vice-president of news at Univision Chicago, Luis Godinez, tells theGodinez said that the television news crew was filming a story about robberies in the West Town community that was set to run on the morning news. He said that the footage they shot was in the stolen camera, and the story consequently never made it on the air.
Chicago police said that no one was hurt in the incident and no arrests have been made yet. The police have identified the victims as a 28-year-old man and a 42-year-old man. Police said that the pair was outside when the three men drove up in a gray sedan and black SUV. After the armed robbers stole the camera and personal items from the television news crew, they fled the scene in their vehicles.
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