A group of robbers ambushed and mugged several students at gunpoint on the University of Chicago campus on Wednesday. However, one female student managed to avoid being robbed after taking quick action against her would-be assailant.
The altercation ended when a student named Maddi managed to stop the robber by ejecting his magazine during a scuffle. Her quick thinking likely saved her life, but she would have been far less vulnerable if she had been carrying her own firearm at the time.
Three students from the University of Chicago were robbed at gunpoint just minutes apart in the area of the school’s Hyde Park campus, according to university police.
The first incident happened around 2:50 p.m. Wednesday as two students were walking on opposite sides of the street in the 5600 block of South University Avenue. Police said four armed suspects approached the victims, took their…
