Chicago couple speaks out after violent, random attack by 'Teen Takeover' mob

A young couple was attacked over the weekend in Chicago amid the violent "Teen Takeover" of the Windy City, saying they feared the mob was "going to kill us" and that cops just drove by the attack without stopping.

Speaking with America Reports, Ashley Knutson, 20, and Devontae Garrisson-Johnson (DJ), 22, recalled being randomly attacked by the mob as they were out shopping in the Windy City.

"DJ had my hand and he was trying to lead me through the crowd of people and they pushed him, they pushed me. And as soon as they pushed me I told DJ, hey, you know, they just shoved me. And he asked them, he was like, 'yo, don’t shove her. Who shoved her?" Knuston recalled.

"And as soon as he said that, everything went crazy, you know, they said they’re gonna kill us."

Knuston said that she was pushed to the ground and a large group went after Garrisson-Johnson.

"I have a lot less injuries than he does, because I was more of a bystander than anything, but everyone went for him and ended up in the middle of the street. They were jumping him in the middle of the street. It got pretty bad," she said.

Garrisson-Johnson said he suffered injuries to his face, shoulder, and back, and called the attack "very random."

"It was very random because all we were doing, we had just left Nordstrom and we were looking for somewhere to eat, and we saw that group and they just thought they was tough and didn’t want to move out the way, they’re out there being stupid," he said. "Young and dumb, trying to prove a point for nothing."  

"It was just absolutely random. You we didn't know anybody. We were just trying to walk through a group of people," said Knuston.

The couple said they were robbed of their shoes, an Apple watch, a hat, a pair of glasses, two cell phones, and "cops drove right by it."

"While DJ was getting jumped in the middle of the street, that’s when I was getting up off the ground, and I saw the cops just drive by. They almost had to avoid the collision to get past us but they just drove by the incident in the middle of the street," said Knuston.

The couple said that a Good Samaritan named Lenora and her husband picked them up, gave them shoes, and took them to the hospital.

"God bless her," Knuston said. "She gave us shoes, took us home, took us to the hospital. Thank you so much. I don't know where we would have been without her."

Lenora Dennis spoke with Fox 32, recalling attempting to flag down officers to break up the situation.

"I literally went out into the street and stopped — and held my hands up to a police car and asked them to stop and motion them over to what was going on, and they just cut a path around me and just kept going," Dennis stated.

Dennis took the couple to the police station where an ambulance was called, and said she was going to go home and find the two some shoes. She recalled the desk sergeant telling her "this was going to happen, it was going to keep happening because Brandon Johnson got elected. That floored me."

"Just do on to others, that’s the mantra that I live by every day is just doing on to others as you would have them do on to you," said Dennis.

Amid the violent weekend, two teens were shot and injured. A 16-year-old was shot in the arm and a 17-year-old was shot in the leg. A 16-year-old girl was injured on Thursday night in Millenium Park, and a 14-year-old was shot around the 31st Street Beach on Friday night.

Videos of the weekend showed hundreds of young people jumping on vehicles, assaulting motorists, and fighting in the streets.