Police are looking for two gunmen in connection with separate robberies and home invasions that took place 15 minutes apart including one that sparked a shootout early Thursday on the Southwest Side.
At 1:40 a.m., a 17-year-old boy was getting out of a car in the 3300 block of West 59th Place when two assailants exited a black SUV that pulled up behind him and demanded his property before forcing him into a home and robbing him, police said. The robbers fled in the same SUV.
Fifteen minutes earlier, a 20-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman were in a vehicle in the 6200 block of South Kolin Avenue when they were confronted by two gunmen who took their property and followed them into a home.
Once inside, they robbed them again, sparking an exchange of gunfire between the victims and the attackers, who eventually got away, police said.
No one was injured and a gun was recovered from the Kolin Avenue scene.
A police spokesperson said it’s not clear if the two attacks are related and said no arrests have been made.
Area One detectives are investigating.