Denied Use of Phone, Thug Robs Man at Gunpoint in Gas Station Parking Lot: Cops

A 20-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint in a gas station parking lot when he refused to let another man borrow his cellphone, reports said.

Oak Lawn police responded to Thornton’s 9138 S. Cicero Ave. around 5:40 p.m. Dec. 29.

The man told police that he was walking through the gas station’s parking lot on his way to work when a four-door gray sedan with tinted windows pulled alongside him on the passenger side.

Police said the rear passenger window rolled down and an African-American male in his twenties with a heavy build and fade haircut asked him if he could use his cellphone.

When the man said he could not, the rear seat passenger pulled a black semi-automatic handgun, ripped the slide backwards and said, “we’re going to make this easy.”

While pointing the gun at the 20-year-old, police said he turned over his iPhone 6. The rear seat passenger asked him for the passcode.

After he gave the passcode, the rear seat passenger told him to look away from the car and continue walking. That was the last the 20-year-old man saw of the car, reports said.

According to the report, the young man said he was in shock and his first thought was to walk to his place of employment. As he continued walking, he decided he need to call police so he entered a nearby business and used their phone.

Police said the man was unable to see the driver or other passenger sitting in the back seat, except that both were black.

The man said that a female black was sitting in the front passenger seat had blond hair extensions and was wearing a winter hat with a ball on top.

Police stopped a car moment later matching the man’s description in the Home Depot parking lot. The 20-year-old man was unable to identify the car.

Detectives were on the scene at Thornton’s reviewing security video.