Lake Shore Drive crowd chases woman to her death View Full Caption

CHICAGO — Police are still looking for the group of people they say chased a woman and man into traffic, where they were hit by a truck and the woman killed.

Pamela Johnson, 32, and her boyfriend, Eugene Jackson, were in Streeterville early Sunday after a night out. At about 1:40 a.m., they were walking in the 600 block of North Lake Shore Drive when a group of men began to harass them, police said.

Police said Jackson told officers the group of men had a gun and were going to rob the couple, though police are not sure there was a gun. Andrew Holmes, an anti-violence activist and a relative of Johnson's, said the couple might have thought they were being robbed.

Pamela Johnson, 32, was fatally struck by a pickup truck on Lake Shore Drive early Sunday. Her family believes she was fleeing a "mob action." View Full Caption Facebook

Johnson and Jackson ran, and police said a surveillance video shows the group of men chasing the couple, even jumping over a barrier to follow them onto Lake Shore Drive.

A pickup truck driving south on the drive hit the couple, killing Johnson and injuring Jackson, police said.

After the collision, the group of men fled westbound on Superior Street, police said. Police released more photos of the group of men, which could have numbered at least 10 young men, according to the photos.

The men were captured on surveillance cameras at a CTA 'L' stop, with CTA personel showing up in some of the photos released by police.

"She was my baby," Jackson, speaking through tears, told ABC7 on Monday. "Now you got people chasing us. Now they got guns. We had no choice but to flee into Lake Shore Drive."

The people who chased them ran to Superior and none were in custody. Police released surveillance photos of the group and have asked people to help find them.

"This may have been some type of mob action," Holmes said on Monday. "These people were just picking at people. It's still criminal. They need to be identified."

Johnson, of Calumet Heights, had a 12-year-old son. Her family asked area businesses and witnesses to contact police if they can help.

The men who chased them were in their late teens to early 20s, Jackson told ABC7.

"I lost a loved one," Jackson said. "My family here ... we all gonna miss you, Pam."

Officers planned to step up patrols along Lake Shore Drive over the weekend after the death of Johnson and the shooting death of 15-year-old Veronica Lopez on the drive.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, 63 people were wounded and six killed in shootings throughout the city.

Police say this group of people chased a woman and man onto Lake Shore Drive, where they were hit by a car. The woman was killed. [Courtesy Chicago Police]

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