'I Might Have The Coronavirus': Woman Disgusted By Encounter

OAK FOREST, IL — A woman who stopped at the Jewel-Osco grocery store at 159th and Central in Oak Forest Wednesday night is appalled after an interaction she said she had with a man outside the store.

Kelley Cain said she was about to head into the Jewel around 8:15 p.m. on March 18 when an African-American man, 5 feet 10 inches or taller, wearing all dark clothes and a black baseball cap came up to her and said, "Can you call the CDC? I think I might have contracted the coronavirus." Cain said the man then rubbed his hand down her face and arm.

"I'm aware it was probably a joke but don't put your hands on someone you don't know, especially at this point in time or let alone ever. That's just disgusting," Cain wrote on Facebook.

Cain said she filed a police report before posting about the interaction on Facebook. Oak Forest police did not immediately confirm a report had been made.

The man left in a white Ford car, which Cain took a photo of and shared on her Facebook page.

Cain said that while being touched in that way by a stranger would be disturbing at any time, it is particularly so now that the country is in the midst of the global pandemic connected to the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19.

"Be kind, keep hands to yourself and don’t use a pandemic where people are losing their lives to make jokes," she said.