CPD: Car thieves crash into post while attempting to flee scene of armed carjacking in Washington Heights

CHICAGO — An investigation is underway after two people crashed a car after stealing it from a woman at gunpoint on the city’s Far South Side early Friday morning.

According to Chicago police, the incident unfolded just before 3 a.m. in the 9900 block of South Halsted Street in Washington Heights.

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Officers said the victim, a 46-year-old woman, was sitting in a parked car in the area when two armed individuals approached and demanded she exit the vehicle.

The two individuals got in the car and attempted to flee the scene, but police said as they tried to make their escape, they crashed into a post…

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