Police Investigate Armed Robbery at Tinley Park Shell

An armed robbery occurred around 3:30 a.m. Sunday at a local gas station, according to reports.

Police said they responded around that time to Shell, 17101 Harlem Ave., for a call about an armed robbery in which the offender was dressed in all black and wearing a ski mask and gloves. He had displayed a large knife and fled in an unknown direction, police said.

The report did not specify whether money was stolen from the station. It also didn't provide any further details about the robbery itself. Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Steve Vaccaro was not immediately available for comment Friday.
Records did show, however, that a 33-year-old Joliet woman was found bleeding near the scene and was thereafter interviewed by police.

The woman said her friend worked at the Shell and said that when she was at the friend's apartment on 71st Street earlier in the evening, she was battered by a man named "Jose." She had met the man before but the two didn't get along, she said, telling police that he had beaten her in the courtyard of the apartment building.

At one point during the brawl, Jose "jumped on her back and demanded that she give him money," she told police. She then told Jose know she was going to the Shell to get an apartment key from her friend.

Jose ran away on foot, she said. The woman told police Jose is notorious for touting a knife he carries.

Police are investigating the matter but noted in the report that the woman had "several open sores all over her body and it appeared that she was under the influence of a controlled substance."