Attackers May Have Thrown Sulfuric Acid

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Police Hope Video Solves Attack

CHICAGO (STNG) - The family of Esperanza Medina asked Tuesday for the public’s help in identifying the people who robbed and threw a caustic liquid that may have contained acid on the 48-year-old social worker as she left her Logan Square home the day before.

“Someone out there has to know something,” Medina’s eldest daughter, Wendy McEvoy said. “We just want justice.”

Police told family members the liquid may have contained sulfuric acid, but it was still being tested, McEvoy said.

She and other relatives said Medina had been getting threatening phone calls, and the tires of her vehicle had recently been slashed.

(Photos: surveillance photos of three suspects and their car)

Police are looking for two Hispanic women and a Hispanic man seen on a surveillance video being dropped off by the driver of a newer model SUV, possibly a Kia Sportage, before the 6:30 a.m. attack in the 2900 block of West Altgeld Street.

The women -- one described as 25 to 35 years old and the other in her late teens or early 20s -- were both 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-6 and 110 to 120 pounds, police said. The older woman was wearing the blue T-shirt and dark sweat pants. The younger woman has curly hair and was in a yellow T-shirt and light-gray pants. The man was 18 to 25 years old, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-8, 130 to 150 pounds and wearing black pants and a long-sleeved T-shirt with white letters.

Medina was left with chemical burns on nearly 25 percent of her body and is heavily sedated at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.

Anyone with information is asked to call Grand Central Area detectives at (312) 746-8360.

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