A woman was carjacked at gunpoint Sunday on Chicago’s North Side—while she was warming up her car in the winter’s cold.
Lauren Jervis, 24, said her car was parked under bright street lights on North Wolcott Avenue in the city’s Bucktown neighborhood.
“I was taking off the snow and stuff and I just got into the car then they came up to me,” Jervis told NBC 5.
She said the robbers pointed a gun at her and demanded to know what valuables she had.
She ran to a neighbor for help as the thieves sped off in her Ford Escape with her phone, keys and wallet inside—leaving her in the cold.
“She’s safe and I don’t care about anything else,” Susan Jervis, Lauren’s mother, said.
Steve Jensen, president of the Bucktown Community Organization, is calling for more police protection in the neighborhood.
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“It’s almost been open season on our neighbors and residents here,” he said.
Police said they searched the area but had no good description to go off of.
Jensen noted how the frigid weather didn’t deter the robbers.
“I thought the cold weather would give us a little reprieve—especially over the holidays,” he said. “But the burglars are desperate during the holidays and this just goes to show the lengths they’ll go to.”
