2 Robbery Suspects Dead After Police Chase and Horrific Crash

UPDATE, 3:55 p.m.

CHICAGO, IL — Two robbery suspects are dead after a crash that followed a strong-arm robbery at a Tinley Park Arby's and a police chase up the interstate into Chicago. Two other suspects and four police officers also were injured in the crash involving multiple vehicles Friday morning in West Pullman.

Tinley Park police were called to Arby's in Brookside Glen Marketplace at 191st and Harlem just before 11 a.m. after a store manager carrying a bank deposit was accosted in the parking lot. The suspects grabbed for the cash, and a struggle ensued. The manager was thrown to the ground, and the offenders made off with the cash. No weapon was displayed.

They then fled on I-80 and continued northbound on the Dan Ryan Expressway, with Illinois State Police on their tail. Chicago police officers were attempting to assist in the chase when the crash occurred at 124th Street and South Union Avenue.

A Chicago police squad car struck a house. The most serious injury to a police officer was a broken leg.

Two people inside the home escaped unscathed but were shaken.

“I thought somebody had bombed the house,” Michael Wells, 71, told the Chicago Sun-Times as he stood in his yard. “I looked out the window and police was everywhere.”

His wife had just parked their van. She said she saw the line of speeding cars and feared shooting would begin.

“I’m blessed. I could’ve been hurt. He could have hit the van, and I was pressed up against the van,” Maxine Wells told the Sun-Times. “I was scared. Everything was flying and stuff.”

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