Authorities charged two men in connection with an armed robbery Tuesday morning in the Gold Coast neighborhood on the Near North Side.
Bryan Martin, 18, and John Davis-Diming, 19, were each charged with two felony counts of robbery while being armed with a firearm, according to a statement from the Chicago Police Department. In hearings Thursday, both were ordered held in lieu of $275,000 bail, according to court records.
The robbery happened around 10:14 a.m. Tuesday in the first block of East Delaware Place.
Martin and Davis-Diming are being accused of approaching a 69-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman and displaying a handgun while demanding the victims’ property, according to the statement.
The older man and woman complied and gave their property. The suspects then shoved the 69-year-old man to the ground and ran away.
Police officers saw the suspects a short distance away and took them into custody after a brief foot chase, the statement said.
A handgun and proceeds from the robbery were recovered. No one was injured.
Martin, of the 121000 block of South State Street, and Davis-Diming, of the 100 block of East 122nd Place, are scheduled to be in Cook County bond court Thursday.