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Armored vehicle driver shoots man after sledgehammer attack
Original Publication Date: September 30, 2017 8:33AM
Publication Updated: April 25, 2025 3:04AM
CHICAGO – The FBI says the driver of an armoured vehicle shot a man who was trying to rob him by hitting him with a sledgehammer.
FBI Spokesman Garrett Croon says the driver for Garda armoured car services exited his vehicle with a bag in his hand as he made a delivery to a Chicago currency exchange around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. That’s when a man came up to the driver with a sledgehammer and hit him in the back.
The driver shot the would-be robber at least once before he ran from the scene in Chicago’s Little Village neighbourhood.
Witnesses later saw him inside a vehicle. Police say he was taken into custody and then to a hospital.
Croon says his injuries were not life-threatening.
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