Overview

• Security video shows the group arriving shortly after 7 a.m. in a Renault Sandero, leaving it in a visitor lot, and climbing the stairs to the upper floors.
• The 21st-floor construction firm was targeted during a roughly 2½-hour robbery in which 17 people were held, with no injuries reported.
• The thieves stole a firearm from a company safe, took cash and valuables, and forced Pix transfers, with police reporting partial recovery of transferred funds.
• Police say the gang appeared to know the firm’s routines, carried employee photos for identification, and timed the assault for a partners’ meeting.
• At least 10 police vehicles swept the 24-floor building after the suspects left around 9:44 a.m., no arrests have been made, and the 23rd Police District leads the investigation.