A panhandler shoved an 82-year-old lady to the bottom outdoors an Uptown quick meals restaurant, breaking her knee, as a result of she didn’t give him cash, officers mentioned as a decide ordered the accused man detained pending trial.
Prosecutors mentioned Dion Rance, 49, was panhandling close to the drive-through of the McDonald’s at 1004 West Wilson Avenue round 10 a.m. on September 15 when the girl, a Lakeview resident who visits the restaurant virtually every day for breakfast, walked out.
Surveillance video allegedly reveals Rance following her alongside the sidewalk earlier than extending an arm and shoving her within the again. The girl fell face-first onto the concrete, screaming in ache, whereas Rance walked away, prosecutors mentioned.
A passerby rushed to assist the girl, who returned to her close by house constructing, the place a staffer referred to as 911. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Heart with a fractured knee and extra accidents to her face and physique from the autumn, prosecutors mentioned.
Police who reviewed the surveillance video instantly acknowledged Rance and positioned his picture into a photograph lineup. However the sufferer, who suffers from cataracts, couldn’t determine him, in line with a detention submitting.
Officers lately discovered Rance strolling within the 5300 block of North Clark in Andersonville and took him into custody.
Prosecutors mentioned he admitted asking the girl for cash however claimed he pushed her as a result of she referred to as him the N-word in Chinese language. Rance informed officers he went to highschool with “a Chinese language man who taught him loads,” the submitting said. Curiously, a court docket doc states the sufferer speaks Japanese.
Rance additionally allegedly informed investigators that “individuals in Uptown are racist and don’t give any cash.”
Decide James Murphy III ordered Rance detained on costs of aggravated battery of a sufferer over 60 and aggravated battery in a public place.
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