Thank You Ms Velezquez

This is the worker at the Dollar Store that was pistol whipped by the armed robber who went on to kill Officer Bartholomew:

• The woman who was pistol-whipped during an armed robbery at a Family Dollar store in Albany Park last weekend said she was horrified to learn one of the two men who were arrested was also accused of later shooting two Chicago police officers, killing one of them.

  Maria Velezquez was still badly bruised nearly one week after the attack, but despite her physical scars, she was speaking out, because she wants people to hear what she endured while simply working at her job; a job she's terrified of returning to now.

  Velezquez was working at the Family Dollar store at the corner of Lawrence and Sawyer avenues on April 25, when two men robbed the store. One of them hit her three times in the face with a gun, breaking her nose.

Despite her injuries, she gave responding Officers a decent enough description of the offender to lead to his eventual capture. She was as horrified as we all were of what transpired afterwards.

There's a GoFundMe for her. It isn't getting as much notice as the multiple fundraisers for the Bartholomew family, but even a couple bucks might be a simple enough "Thanks" for stepping up after taking a beating like she did.