A group was caught on camera taking an ATM from a gas station in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood early Friday morning.
Chicago police said a group of two to four people broke into a Citgo gas station in the 200 block of West 63rd Street around 4:45 a.m.
Surveillance video captured three men dressed in black walking inside the gas station's convenience store to steal the ATM from inside. One man had a small saw in his hand while using his body weight to pry the ATM off its foundation, as another started pushing it.
Outside, a man wearing a blue jacket and cream pants opened the back of the group's SUV, then he and another man loaded the ATM into it while the man in the blue jacket crawled in next to the ATM. Unable to close the back, about 30 seconds later, they drove away with the hatch still open.
A witness who was inside the gas station at the time told CBS News Chicago the suspects were armed.
"I was terrified, because they came with their guns out," the witness said. "They came in, asked me if I was security. I told them no. They had they guns out. They had the little hacksaw."
That's when the man said the literal push to remove the ATM started.
"They shimmied the ATM. They couldn't get it. They rammed it, flipped it over, unplugged it, and ran up out of here," he said. "They was in two black SRTs, and they took off."
The theft of the ATM left broken floor tiles where it once stood.
The witness said he stayed on his phone the entire time, describing what was happening around him like a scene from a movie. He said he was shocked it all happened right in front of him.
"Standing right here. Like literally right here," he said. "I've heard about it. I've seen it on the news. There's been a lot of that going on in Chicago. There's been a lot of that going on."
An employee said the manager is looking at steps to secure the ATM once it's replaced, whether that means bolting it to the floor or surrounding it in a metal cage.
No arrests have been made.
Area One detectives are investigating.
