After vicious attack, Facebook suggested adding her assailant as a ‘friend.’ She … – CWB Chicago

Isaiah Del Toro (Chicago Police Department) A Rogers Park woman who was beaten with a cooking pot and robbed inside her own apartment tracked down her alleged attacker after Facebook suggested she add him as a “friend.” The shrewd North Sider ran his social media photos through ChatGPT, figured out where he lived, and ultimately found him at a bus stop. Prosecutors said the 23-year-old woman met the man and exchanged phone numbers outside Rino bar in River North at closing time on June 13. She later invited him to her apartment. They hung out for a while, but the woman became uncomfortable and asked the man to leave. He kept refusing, so she gave up and went to the kitchen to make some eggs, prosecutors said. The man followed her, grabbed a cooking pot, and struck her repeatedly in the head, arms and legs, then fled with her phone and purse. Stunned, the woman grabbed a knife and chased after him, but he got away. She encountered police near the Morse Red Line station, and EMS took her to St. Francis Hospital, where she received 14 staples for a head wound, according to a CPD report. The next day
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