4 feral Negroes apprehended in Park Ridge after Flossmoor robbery, chase

Four Negro suspects in a south suburban Flossmoor armed robbery were taken into custody early Thursday afternoon following a multi-jurisdictional pursuit that ended in Park Ridge.

Flossmoor Deputy Chief Tod Kamleiter said a woman was in a commercial parking lot on Vollmer Road near Kedzie Avenue when a vehicle pulled up with four people inside. One flashed a small semi-automatic handgun and demanded her purse, which she handed over. The woman was not injured.

Police were called and an alert was put out to neighboring jurisdictions, Kamleiter said. A Homewood police officer spotted the vehicle at 183rd Street and Kedzie Avenue, approximately two miles north of the robbery, police said.

Other law enforcement agencies, along with a police helicopter, joined in the pursuit, which proceeded from 183rd Street, to Interstate 57 and onto Interstate 294, officials said. Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Jason Bradley said the car got off the highway approximately 45 miles north at the Dempster Street exit and ended up in a parking lot north of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, where the suspects got out.