The moment Jana Kinsman felt a hand on her back, she started screaming.
The 27-year-old Logan Square cyclist was riding up Kimball Avenue just after midnight Tuesday when a maroon or purple SUV pulled up beside her and a hand shot out toward her, she said.
In just seconds, she was being pulled up the street by the handle of her messenger bag and smashed into a parked car.
"I just remember when they grabbed me, I thought, this is not going to end well," she said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon. "I remember falling and hitting the ground, and screaming. I didn't know what else to do, I was so furious and terrified. I wasn't sure what had happened to my body."
Kinsman, who regularly rides her bike for miles between Bridgeport, Pilsen, and Old Irving Park for Bike-a-Bee, a nonprofit beekeeping program she founded, was on her way to Albany Park to check up on a friend's cat -- on a route she knew well.
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