Surveillance video captured the moment where dozens of young people vandalized a business and assaulted owners in what is called a "flash mob."
Youth mob attacks store owners during wild night at Smithsonian’s #zoolights Saturday. @LindsayAWatts talks to business owners in wake of wild scene. The latest in a string of flash mob style attacks in the city. pic.twitter.com/o5ATFh8czU— Van Applegate (@vbagate) December 3, 2019
The flash mob happened on the same night as a pair of shootings that marred a Christmas celebration called "Zoo Lights" at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois.
Kevin McMahon, the owner of the ice cream shop FrozenYo, told Fox-5 News that he and his wife were assaulted during the flash mob. The store sits across the street from the zoo.
"There were like 50 people in the store, some as young as 10 or 12, some 20 (years old)," said McMahon.
The video shows dozens of young people streaming into the store. McMahon says that he was assaulted when he tried to usher them out, and then his wife was punched in the face when she tried to help him.
"I didn't know it-my wife came out of the kitchen and tried to pull him off my back," he explained. "He punched her a couple times in the face and this girl punched my wife two, three, four times in the face."
Carole McMahon said she needed stitches from injuries she endured during the assault.
Police say no one has been arrested for the flash mob, or the two shootings at the Christmas celebration in Chicago.
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