A man was mugged on a Red Line train on the Near North Side this morning by five people who punched him and took his iPod and some cash, police say.
The 35-year-old man was on his way to work from his Evanston home when he was attacked by the group at the Chicago station, according to Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak.
The man told police he had seen the group harassing other passengers before they robbed him. A woman in the group grabbed his iPod and, when he tried to grab it back, one of the others blocked him and punched him in the mouth, Kubiak said.
The assailants were described as being 15 to 25 years old. Four of them were males.
This morning's attack followed a Wednesday afternoon mugging at the Brown Line stop three blocks away, in which a group stole a male victim's wallet and iPhone. That group comprised four to six people, with one of them possibly female, police said. But police couldn't say if the same people were responsible for both attacks.
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