‘I’m so grateful to be alive’: grandmother robbed at gunpoint at Blue Island gas station

BLUE ISLAND, Sick. (CBS)– A grandmother was robbed at gunpoint at a fuel station in Blue Island. 

Mendacity on the bottom gun to her head, 68-year-old Evelyn Berry advised CBS 2 she leaned on her religion greater than ever in that second – pondering she would die.

“I believed that he was going to shoot me as a result of he stored saying it,” Berry mentioned. 

Final Sunday afternoon, Berry thought she would get fuel at Thornton’s at 127th Road and Vincennes Avenue.

“I hadn’t been house but. I used to be simply coming from church,” She mentioned. 

However earlier than she may even pay on the pump, she noticed a gun pointed at her.

“And I noticed the barrel of that gun and it was huge,” She mentioned. “I stood there for a minute, I froze. As a result of I believed I used to be having an out- of-body expertise.”

A person demanded her belongings. She says he ordered her to the bottom.

“When he advised me do not take a look at him, I did not, but it surely simply felt unreal,” Berry mentioned.

He stole her purse  rode off in a automotive.

Blue Island police later discovered the bag on the street, with a torn strap. The offender stole $200 from her pockets. 

“Each time I give it some thought, I cry. I simply cannot imagine it occurred to me,” She mentioned. 

Berry had no description of the suspect. The stolen automobile’s plate was noticed on surveillance cameras.

That evening, Illinois State Police noticed the automotive on I-57 and chased the motive force who crashed the automobile in Chicago.

Police mentioned seven juveniles ran out of the silver Hyundai Elantra and all seven juveniles had been arrested.

Blue Island police can’t affirm if one in all them is chargeable for attacking Berry — scarring her ceaselessly.

“I am unable to actually sleep. Each time I shut my eyes, I see the gun,” She mentioned. “I am so grateful to be alive.”