CHICAGO — A 20-year-old man and 17-year-old have been charged with stealing people's cars at gunpoint and robbing people, police said.
At 6:15 p.m. Monday, Lavontay Chavis, 20, and the teen robbed two people and then took the victims' car at gunpoint in the 6000 block of North Fairfield Avenue, police said. The two drove away in the car, but 10 minutes later they crashed into a tree in the 6600 block of North Western Avenue, where police took them into custody.
Chavis and the teen were then identified as the people behind two separate armed robberies earlier in the day, police said.
Chavis has been charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a gun and three counts armed robbery and received traffic citations, police said. The teen was charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking and six counts of armed robbery.
Chavis was scheduled to appear in Bond Court on Wednesday.
