A South Loop man was brutally attacked in Boystown Saturday morning, and he’s speaking out about his harrowing experience as the suspect is still at large.
While walking with his husband near the intersection of Halsted and Addison, Alex Hill III says that a man turned around and asked him a seemingly innocuous question.
“The guy looked over his shoulder and asked me, why was I close to his girlfriend,” Hill said.
After the man asked him the question, he brutally attacked Hill, leaving him lying unconscious on the pavement. After the attack, the man then robbed Hill, and fled the scene.
The attack left Hill with a severe concussion and four staples on the side of his head, and says that his memories of the incident are spotty as a result.
“I recall waking up at the hospital,” he said. “Things happened so quickly. He asked me, and the next thing I know I was shoved and I was on the ground and blood was all over the place.”
As Hill’s partner and friends called police, he says the man robbed him, taking his wallet and phone as he was knocked prone onto the street.
Hill says that he was especially stunned by the attack because of its proximity both to Wrigley Field, just a few blocks away, and the 18th District Police Precinct, just one block away from the scene.
“To be assaulted in a place I find to be safe, in terms of my community, it’s very alarming,” he said. “I don’t know if this was a ploy just to rob me and flee the scene quickly.”
Hill says that his friends who witnessed the attack provided details to police, who have yet to formally identify a suspect in the attack.
More importantly to him, Hill now feels uncomfortable in a place he once considered safe, and is now hesitant to visit again.
