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Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the killing of a 73-year-old Marine veteran who was beaten to death during an attempted carjacking in Hyde Park.

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the killing of a 73-year-old Marine veteran who was beaten to death during an attempted carjacking in Hyde Park. Chris Hush reports.

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the killing of a 73-year-old Marine veteran who was beaten to death during an attempted carjacking in Hyde Park.

Keith Cooper would have turned 74 years old later this month, but on Wednesday he was killed in a brazen attempted carjacking in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter shares the story.

Both incidents were caught on home surveillance video but in different parts of Chicago at different times of the day, shedding light on the frightening reality that these crimes can and do happen everywhere.

On one recent day, Brian La Fountain, a Chicago Uber driver, was waiting at a stop light on the city’s Near West Side when, suddenly, three young men armed with guns jumped in front of his SUV, he told NBC 5.

As a rash of carjackings continues to plague Chicago, police say three incidents occurred in just one day last week. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter spoke to one of the victims and shares their story.

Nearly two weeks after a horrific carjacking in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, the victim opened up to NBC 5 about the terrifying incident. The victim, who asked that her named not be shared in fear of possible retaliation, said the carjacking happened when she pulled up to her friend’s place and started pulling bags out of her trunk. “Literally...