Seven Arrested After Fight Near Julian High School – cbs2chicago.com
Police backup was requested and seven arrests were made after a fight broke out among a group of teens Wednesday afternoon less than a mile from Julian High School on the Far South Side.
The incident happened about 3:15 p.m. at 103rd and Halsted streets, according to police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick, who said a group of teens got into a verbal altercation, which led to a physical altercation.
Julian High School is located at 10330 S. Elizabeth St., about six blocks from where the fight began.
A 10-1 call — for immediate police backup — was requested after an officer attempted to break up the fight, Fitzpatrick said.
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Chicago News Bench: Communities Must Take Responsibility for Own Violence
This is powerful, and pleasantly surprising. CNN’s Anderson Cooper gets an earful from Steve Perry, a CNN Education Contributor, as they discuss the violence that plagues Chicago’s neighborhoods. Perry, to his credit, is no sycophant to the Jessie Jacksons and Al Sharptons who believe that government and more money is the solution to violence. “The community has to begin to take full responsibility for the circumstances that are taking place within the community,” Perry tells Cooper. Amen, brother, the truth shall set you free.
via Chicago News Bench: Communities Must Take Responsibility for Own Violence.
Cops: Teen used lighter fluid to set niece aflame
An Aurora man who was accused today of spraying lighter fluid on his 3-year-old niece and then setting her on fire because he felt she was bothering him has had mental health problems since a car hit him three years ago, a relative said.
Raymundo Herrera, 17, of the 1200 block of South Grove Street, was being held in Kane County Jail in lieu of $3 million bail. He is charged with two counts of attempted murder, along with heinous battery and two other battery charges.
The girl suffered third-degree burns on 18 percent of her body and has been hospitalized since Monday night, when the attack occurred at Herrera’s home.
“Herrera became upset at some point because she was bothering him while he was trying to listen to music, so he sprayed her with lighter fluid and lit her on fire,” Aurora Public Information Director Dan Ferrelli said.
via Cops: Teen used lighter fluid to set niece aflame – Chicago Breaking News.
4 teens charged in Far South Side fight
Four teenagers were arrested this afternoon and charged for participating in a street fight that stopped traffic in the city’s Washington Heights community, police said.
The melee prompted a police officer to call for backup to help quell the disturbance. No injuries were reported.
The officer tried to break up the fight involving teenage boys in the 10300 block of South Lowe Avenue at about 3:20 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick. The officer called for a “10-1,” code for officer in need of assistance.
Four boys between 15 and 16 years old were arrested and cited as juveniles with reckless conduct, Fitzpatrick said.
via 4 teens charged in Far South Side fight – Chicago Breaking News.
Teens recommend ways to curb youth violence
The teenagers involved in a program that suggests solutions to youth violence have long known what Derrion Albert and other Fenger High School students know: the danger they face lies not within school walls, but on their way home.
Urban Prep Charter Academy student Jonathan Harvey says that the suit and tie all students at the school’s Englewood campus are required to wear can be a magnet for trouble in the Englewood neighborhood.
“Anywhere around my school, five blocks anywhere around there, we are not safe at all,” he said. “We could be blocks away from the school, we’re not safe. If you go to my school, you’re only safe until you’re at home.”
Brooks College Prep student Arely Gaeta can relate. She says students at her Far South Side school are routinely picked on by students from nearby neighborhood schools.
“The reason they say they pick on us is because we think we’re better than them because we go to a better school…and that’s really not it,” she said.
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