Crime & Safety
Woman, Teen Shot During Holdup Charged With Armed Robbery: Police
The duo faces armed robbery charges for attempting to hold up a liquor store before an employee pulled a gun and shot them, police said.
LAKE COUNTY, IL — A woman and teen accused of holding up a Round Lake Beach liquor store at gunpoint last week before an employee at the store shot them now face felony charges, authorities said. Feliciyunna S. Spruille, 20, of the 700 block of Lewis Avenue in Waukegan, has been charged with armed robbery in connection with the Dec. 7 encounter at One Stop Food and Liquor, according to police.
She is being treated at Condell Medical Center and will be transported to the Lake County Jail once she is released from the hospital, according to a Wednesday news release from the Round Lake Beach Police Department.
A 16-year-old boy has also been charged with armed robbery and was transported to Depke Juvenile Detention Center in Vernon Hills.
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Authorities are still trying to track down two other people involved in the robbery who left the injured woman and teen behind to flee from police, according to the news release.
Police say Spruille and the teenage boy entered the liquor store in the 1000 block of Fairfield Road at 10:47 p.m. on Tuesday and pulled out a gun while barking orders to employees behind a counter at the business, according to police. One of the employees got a firearm and shot several times at the woman and teen, striking both, police said.
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Police said Spruille and the teen fled, getting into a vehicle waiting for them, which then headed north on Fairfield. The vehicle went down a dead end road, and officers from the Round Lake Heights Police Department attempted to pull it over. Both a driver and passenger in the vehicle then fled on foot, according to police.
Emergency personnel transported Spruille and the teen to Condell Medical Center for treatment of injuries sustained during the shooting, police said.
Police said the vehicle was confirmed to be stolen out of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the Round Lake Beach Police Department are "working several leads" as they try to locate the driver and passenger.
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