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Girl hit in face with hammer at Gold Coast McDonald's: 'I’m just lucky, it could have been my eye'
Jasmine Ware, 16, shows several stitches on her head wound as she recovers at her grandmother's home in Chicago on June 26, 2018. Ware said she was attacked by a woman with a hammer inside the McDonald's at Chicago Avenue and State Street in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Madeline Buckley and Rosemary SobolChicago Tribune
After shopping on the Mag Mile, DuSable High School junior Jasmine Ware and three girlfriends decided to grab a snack before heading back their Bronzeville homes Monday night.
They stopped at the McDonald’s at Chicago Avenue and State Street in the Gold Coast neighborhood and noticed a woman causing a ruckus. “A random lady was arguing with somebody else,’’ said Ware, 16.
The girls figured out what they wanted to eat and stood in line near the woman.
“The McDonald’s lady said to (me), ‘Come up next,’’’ Ware said. “Then the lady said: ‘I’m next.’ We’re like, ‘Um, how are you going to be next?’”
The woman began arguing and pushing them, she said. “The next thing I know I see her go inside her purse and pull out a hammer,’’ Ware said. “She said: ‘I’ll hit y’all.’ She was cursing, she even spit on one of my friends.’’
Ware said she slipped on something, possibly water on the floor, and fell toward the woman.
The woman raised the hammer and swung it at her forehead, just over her right eye, Ware said. More chaos followed. “People I didn’t even know were throwing things at her, like chairs and everything in the McDonald’s,’’ Ware said.
Ware said she fell down and didn’t realize she was hurt until her friends began yelling, “She’s bleeding! She’s bleeding!’’
Ware said she began crying, and McDonald’s staffers gave her ice for her wound and called 911. Responding officers arrested the woman, Hannah Walker, 36, and recovered a hammer, police said.
Hannah Walker, 36, has been charged with misdemeanor simple battery. (Chicago Police Department)
Ware’s grandmother drove her to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she got three stitches in her forehead and spent the night. “I’m just lucky — it could have been my eye,’’ Ware said Tuesday morning.
Walker, of the 4200 block of West North Avenue, was charged with misdemeanor simple battery, according to Officer Patrick McGinnis, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department. Walker is due in court Aug. 1, he said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-hammer-attack-20180626-story.html
Girl hit in face with hammer at Gold Coast McDonald's: 'I’m just lucky, it could have been my eye'
Jasmine Ware, 16, shows several stitches on her head wound as she recovers at her grandmother's home in Chicago on June 26, 2018. Ware said she was attacked by a woman with a hammer inside the McDonald's at Chicago Avenue and State Street in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Madeline Buckley and Rosemary SobolChicago Tribune
After shopping on the Mag Mile, DuSable High School junior Jasmine Ware and three girlfriends decided to grab a snack before heading back their Bronzeville homes Monday night.
They stopped at the McDonald’s at Chicago Avenue and State Street in the Gold Coast neighborhood and noticed a woman causing a ruckus. “A random lady was arguing with somebody else,’’ said Ware, 16.
The girls figured out what they wanted to eat and stood in line near the woman.
“The McDonald’s lady said to (me), ‘Come up next,’’’ Ware said. “Then the lady said: ‘I’m next.’ We’re like, ‘Um, how are you going to be next?’”
The woman began arguing and pushing them, she said. “The next thing I know I see her go inside her purse and pull out a hammer,’’ Ware said. “She said: ‘I’ll hit y’all.’ She was cursing, she even spit on one of my friends.’’
Ware said she slipped on something, possibly water on the floor, and fell toward the woman.
The woman raised the hammer and swung it at her forehead, just over her right eye, Ware said. More chaos followed. “People I didn’t even know were throwing things at her, like chairs and everything in the McDonald’s,’’ Ware said.
Ware said she fell down and didn’t realize she was hurt until her friends began yelling, “She’s bleeding! She’s bleeding!’’
Ware said she began crying, and McDonald’s staffers gave her ice for her wound and called 911. Responding officers arrested the woman, Hannah Walker, 36, and recovered a hammer, police said.
Hannah Walker, 36, has been charged with misdemeanor simple battery. (Chicago Police Department)
Ware’s grandmother drove her to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she got three stitches in her forehead and spent the night. “I’m just lucky — it could have been my eye,’’ Ware said Tuesday morning.
Walker, of the 4200 block of West North Avenue, was charged with misdemeanor simple battery, according to Officer Patrick McGinnis, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department. Walker is due in court Aug. 1, he said.
