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EDGEWATER — Brianna Joy White, a YouTube beauty vlogger, and her house-flipping husband Jaelin, both 18, recently moved to Chicago looking to start married life together. By the next day, they were packed up and headed home to Arizona.
In a video posted to Brianna's YouTube channel, the couple explained from a kitchen decorated with marble counters and stainless-steel appliances how they'd become "homeless" after a "traumatic experience" that ended in a stranger punching Jaelin in the face near the Granville Red Line station in Edgewater.
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After walking to the Granville Red Line station, Jaelin said he was confronted by a man who at first "seemed cool" but made the couple feel uncomfortable with prodding questions.
"Do not tell him that you flip houses or that you make YouTube videos," Jaelin said he remembered thinking to himself.
The couple referred to the man as a "lunatic," "nut job," "crazy" and "creepy" throughout the video and describe him as being unable to make much eye contact, but asserted he "wasn't homeless or anything."
They decided to leave the platform and walk back down to Granville Avenue when they noticed the man was heading the same direction, about 20 paces behind them.
Though acknowledging that the Loyola police station was right there, the couple ducked into a nearby Subway sandwich shop on North Broadway and after a moment, saw the man lingering near the store.
Jaelin said he walked out to ask what the man wanted, but he was "just hanging around" and everything was "all good" went back inside.
"At this point I'm thinking, either he's just some lunatic and he's going to shoot us point blank, or he's looking to rob us," the husband said, adding that he called both an Uber and 911.
After being told an officer would stop by, Jaelin said he went back outside to confront the man a second time, this time seeking an explanation for why the man was "hanging around our area."
"At this point I feel like I'm going to throw up, like I literally thought I was just going to have a heart attack," Brianna said. "His voice was so sketchy."
The man then asked the husband to come outside and talk with him without his "girl," and the couple said it became apparent to passersby something was amiss.
A car pulled up to ask the couple if everything was OK, and they ran for its doors thinking it was the Uber they'd requested, the couple said.
As they ran into the car, the man lunged toward the husband and punched him in the face, they recalled.
"Thank god he wasn't strong enough to just knock me out," Jaelin said.
In the process, his shoe came off, but it was scooped up by his wife, who described herself in the moment as "such a baller."
The driver of the car they jumped in drove the couple around the block before dropping them off at the CVS on North Broadway, near their home. Then, they spotted the man "celebrating like a cave man" and said they felt unsafe returning to the apartment.
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