July 13--A Chicago man was charged with taking $28 from a woman in a wheelchair on the West Side.
Tyrone Howard, 54, was arrested Saturday afternoon about two blocks away, near Western Avenue and Iowa Street after robbing a 62-year-old woman, according to Chicago police records. The robbery was caught on surveillance video from a camera at an ATM on Chicago Avenue, just east of Western, records said.
He allegedly choked her and demanded money, and she handed over $28 and change, according to records.
The woman was in a wheelchair "without any possible way to defend herself," according to records.
Howard was charged with robbery, and Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. set bail at $350,000.
He was scheduled to be back in court Friday.
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