COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A West Side woman hailed a cab, then hit the driver in the head with a piece of concrete as they drove through Garfield Park, prosecutors said.
The cab crashed into a nearby fence — and the woman's plans to rob the driver were thwarted when a witness began yelling, Assistant State's Attorney Erin Antonietti said in a court hearing Friday.
Allison Figgers, Tatiyanna McGee and an accomplice hailed the cab about 11:05 a.m. Thursday in the 100 block of South Sacramento Boulevard, prosecutors said.
Figgers had initially planned to visit relatives in the suburbs, but instead decided to rob the driver with McGee and the accomplice, Antonietti said.
Before getting into the cab, Figgers shoved a piece of concrete in her pocket, according to prosecutors.
Once the cab started moving, Figgers began hitting the 34-year-old driver in his head with the piece of concrete, prosecutors said. The third person used a "bludgeon" to attack the man, Antonietti noted, and McGee was armed with pepper spray.
The cab soon crashed into a fence, prosecutors said, and the accomplice ran away.
McGee tried to pull Figgers out of the taxi, Antonietti said, but Figgers continued to beat the driver until a witness shouted, "Stop attacking him!"
Figgers and McGee ran off, but were soon arrested by a Chicago Police detective who was working on the next block, prosecutors said.
The entire attack was captured on the taxi's surveillance camera, according to an arrest report.
Figgers, of the 3000 block of West Jackson Boulevard, and McGee, of the 1600 block of South Karlov Avenue, are both charged with aggravated battery of a taxi driver, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and attempted armed robbery.
Neither woman had any prior criminal history.
According to their public defender, Figgers works as a certified nursing assistant. McGee is a junior at an alternative high school, the attorney said.
Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas on Friday set bail for each woman at $10,000.
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