2 teens charged after armed carjacking, crash on Chicago's Near West Side

Chicago police warning drivers that they could get carjacked right after parking their cars

Chicago police say some drivers have been targeted by carjackers right after parking. Nate Rodgers reports.

CHICAGO - Two teens are in custody after allegedly carjacking a couple at gunpoint and crashing the car Sunday night on Chicago's Near West Side.

A male and a 17-year-old girl were sitting in an Audi Q-7 in a West Loop parking lot around 11:14 p.m. when a group of five or six males pulled them out of their car at gunpoint and drove off in the 500 block of West Van Buren Street, police said.

The carjackers struck another vehicle in traffic near Grand Avenue and Noble Street in the West Town neighborhood.

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Two teens, ages 16 and 17, were arrested minutes later after running from the car, police said. They are each facing one felony count of vehicular hijacking.

The teenage girl who was in the vehicle they struck was taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries, police said.

Area Three detectives are investigating.