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Battery reported at Bank of America on Cermak and OakleyChicago IL

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audio iconAssault
W Cermak Rd & S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608

As discussed during the dispatch call, police responded to a battery in progress at the Bank of America near the intersection of West Cermak Road and South Oakley Avenue in Chicago. Reports indicated a group of males were attacking one male. A slowdown was issued after the incident was reported, and officers received an update describing an offender carrying a shark backpack. No caller names or phone numbers were provided.

Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 03
Listen to dispatch call
01:27
Transcript:
00:00
Twelve thirty-four, let me have you slide on this first, and then I'll show you going over there.
00:03
It's a battery in progress on your beat at Bank of America, Oakley Ave and W Cermak Rd.
00:06
Coming in, details to follow for a group of males jumping on one male.
00:11
Thank you, appreciate it.
00:17
Fourteen twenty.
00:19
Go ahead, Sarge.
00:21
Is there no caller name or phone number on either of these calls on Tolman? The one that twenty-three took or the one that twenty-one took?
00:28
Yes, no name on this one either.
00:30
Let me check the other call for service.
00:32
Give me a second.
00:38
And yes, no call on the other one either.
00:41
No name, no phone number.
00:44
Okay, so twenty-one made contact with this guy.
00:46
He has two cars parked on the block.
00:47
One is marked for a seven-day tow abandonment and he's trying to get it started so he can move it because he doesn't want it to be towed.
00:55
Neither vehicle was parked illegally other than that.
00:57
If anybody else calls back on these vehicles on this address again today, duplicate it for me.
01:01
Do not send another car over here.
01:03
10-4, will do.
01:09
Twelve thirty-four.
01:10
Do you think of it as a slowdown over here?
01:13
Twelve thirty-four is giving a slowdown to the Bank of America, Oakley and Cermak.
01:17
Any other units responding? It's going on down.
01:20
Let me see here.
01:21
We got an update.
01:22
One offender with a shark backpack.
01:26
Nothing further, that's it.

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Location mentioned:
W Cermak Rd & S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608

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