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FBI agent attacked, shoots man
Police say she was victim of robbery attempt
By Aamer Madhani
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 11, 2004
An FBI agent shot a man who attempted to rob her Sunday afternoon outside an Edgewater apartment building, authorities said.
The man approached the woman about 12:15 p.m. as she stood on the landing of an apartment building in the 5600 block of North Wayne Avenue, dragged her down concrete steps and punched and bit her as she lay on her back, according to witnesses and Chicago police investigators at the scene.
Police and FBI officials confirmed that the agent fired her gun and wounded a man in what was believed to be an attempted robbery but would not reveal the agent's name.
Juan Escandon, 33, said he was parking his car nearby when he saw the tussle begin. Escandon said he got out of his car, approached the man and yelled at him to stop beating the woman. He said the woman, who he later learned was an FBI agent, screamed at the man not to rape her.
When he was only a few feet away from them, Escandon said, the woman pulled a handgun from an ankle holster and shot the man in the upper torso.
"I was scared and ran back toward my house for cover," Escandon said.
Witnesses said the man muttered an obscenity at the agent after he was wounded, staggered to his car and fled in a two-door blue Dodge. About two blocks away, the man lost control of the car and crashed into the wall of a coin laundry at Ridge and Magnolia Avenues, said a police investigator who asked not to be identified.
The crash appeared to cause little damage to the business or the car, and the vehicle stood wrapped with yellow police tape as customers went about their business hours after the incident.
Connie Trujillo, 14, whose mother owns a nearby beauty salon, was doing her family's laundry when the car crashed. Amid the din of the washers and dryers, she said she didn't notice the crash until another patron alerted her.
Trujillo said at least two customers went outside to assist the man, who was shirtless and bleeding from the upper torso.
"You could tell [his injury] wasn't from the car crash," Trujillo said.
JoAnn Taylor, a police spokeswoman, said the man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. No charges had been filed late Sunday, and it was unclear if the man knew the woman was an FBI agent.
At the apartment building, witnesses said the agent calmly collected herself and called 911 and her FBI office on a borrowed cell phone to report the attack.
Hannah Ato, 27, said she came out of her apartment with her husband to help the woman and heard her tell dispatchers that she was at the building picking up mail for a friend who was out of town.
"She had a big gash of a bite mark on her leg and her hair was pulled, but she was really calm," Ato said.
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FBI agent attacked, shoots man
Police say she was victim of robbery attempt
By Aamer Madhani
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 11, 2004
An FBI agent shot a man who attempted to rob her Sunday afternoon outside an Edgewater apartment building, authorities said.
The man approached the woman about 12:15 p.m. as she stood on the landing of an apartment building in the 5600 block of North Wayne Avenue, dragged her down concrete steps and punched and bit her as she lay on her back, according to witnesses and Chicago police investigators at the scene.
Police and FBI officials confirmed that the agent fired her gun and wounded a man in what was believed to be an attempted robbery but would not reveal the agent's name.
Juan Escandon, 33, said he was parking his car nearby when he saw the tussle begin. Escandon said he got out of his car, approached the man and yelled at him to stop beating the woman. He said the woman, who he later learned was an FBI agent, screamed at the man not to rape her.
When he was only a few feet away from them, Escandon said, the woman pulled a handgun from an ankle holster and shot the man in the upper torso.
"I was scared and ran back toward my house for cover," Escandon said.
Witnesses said the man muttered an obscenity at the agent after he was wounded, staggered to his car and fled in a two-door blue Dodge. About two blocks away, the man lost control of the car and crashed into the wall of a coin laundry at Ridge and Magnolia Avenues, said a police investigator who asked not to be identified.
The crash appeared to cause little damage to the business or the car, and the vehicle stood wrapped with yellow police tape as customers went about their business hours after the incident.
Connie Trujillo, 14, whose mother owns a nearby beauty salon, was doing her family's laundry when the car crashed. Amid the din of the washers and dryers, she said she didn't notice the crash until another patron alerted her.
Trujillo said at least two customers went outside to assist the man, who was shirtless and bleeding from the upper torso.
"You could tell [his injury] wasn't from the car crash," Trujillo said.
JoAnn Taylor, a police spokeswoman, said the man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. No charges had been filed late Sunday, and it was unclear if the man knew the woman was an FBI agent.
At the apartment building, witnesses said the agent calmly collected herself and called 911 and her FBI office on a borrowed cell phone to report the attack.
Hannah Ato, 27, said she came out of her apartment with her husband to help the woman and heard her tell dispatchers that she was at the building picking up mail for a friend who was out of town.
"She had a big gash of a bite mark on her leg and her hair was pulled, but she was really calm," Ato said.
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