DOWNTOWN — A person of interest is being questioned in the recorded attack of a woman in River North, police said.
No charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing, said Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police spokesman.
More than $10,000 has been raised in just one day through a GoFundMe campaign to help the victim, Zoa Stigler, during her recovery. Stigler will have surgery on her eye Wednesday to repair the damage caused in the attack, the campaign's organizer wrote.
The attack happened early Sunday and was captured in a video obtained by WGN-TV.
At 2:14 a.m., Stigler, a 46-year-old security guard, was working at her building in the 600 block of North Franklin Street when the man vomited outside, said Officer Laura Amezaga, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
Stigler went outside to the sidewalk and asked the intoxicated man to leave, Amezaga said, and he punched her in her face.
According to WGN, which broadcast video from the incident, the woman's nose and a bone under her eye were broken. Stigler told WGN she saw the man sitting outside and went to check on him. She realized he was sick and called police.
The man vomited on the sidewalk while his friends stood nearby, according to WGN. Stigler got a mop and bucket to clean the mess and asked the group to leave. After speaking with them, the man threw a water bottle at Stigler and punched her in the face. The group then left.
"Why would you hit a human being in the face that's trying to assist you, trying to help you?" Stigler told WGN. "I hope they arrest him because I do plan on pressing charges against him for assaulting me for doing my job."
The man was white, 5-foot-7 and had short, brown hair, police said. The video shows him wearing a dark baseball cap with the number "3" on it — a hat made popular by Chance the Rapper, who sells it to mark his third mixtape.