Thirteen Foreman High School students are facing charges following a melee that erupted in a hallway at the Northwest Side school Thursday afternoon. The incident happened in a third floor hallway of the school. It started out as a spontaneous fight only between students but school security officers on the scene called the Chicago Police because of [...]
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Police say a scheduled fight between two 14-year-olds at Hilda Walker School turned into a family affair when one of the kid’s father and two older brothers showed up and joined in. Ahmad Elabed, 42, of Frankfort, and his 19-year-old son, Hakm Elabed, and 21-year-old son, Nedal Elabed, are scheduled to appear in Will County [...]
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More than a dozen students were arrested and a Chicago police officer was injured after fistfights broke out Thursday among students at Foreman High School on the Northwest Side, officials said. Students interviewed at the school at 3235 N. Leclaire Ave. said the melee stemmed from an altercation between two male students and appeared to [...]
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What do you imagine the halls of a juvenile detention facility sound like? Loud and rowdy? These youth weren’t incarcerated for being docile and submissive, after all, so it would seem highly unlikely one could find a quiet spot in such an institution, right? But, according to some, the sounds of juvenile detention centers have [...]
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16-year-old La Salle boy admitted to a stabbing Tuesday and will serve an indefinite sentence — his second in 20 months — in juvenile lockup. The youth was adjudicated Tuesday in La Salle County Circuit Court on one count of aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony. An adult could face 2-5 years in prison for [...]
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GALESBURG — Two Galesburg High School students were arrested for aggravated battery early Tuesday for hitting school employees after a fight broke out around 7:30 a.m. Police responded to the school because of the fight, which was broken up by the time they arrived. Administrators were attempting to get one of the students involved in [...]
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A cafeteria fight may have lead to the murder of a 16-year-old Bowen High School student shot dead as he walked home Wednesday afternoon, the boy’s family said today. Sophomore Deantonio Goss became the first Chicago Public School student to be killed this school year, just two days after classes resumed at Bowen. The fact [...]
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A Chicago Public Schools teacher was stabbed Wednesday while attempting to break up a fight inside a Pilsen Elementary School. Chicago police responded to Pickard Elementary School, 2301 W. 21st Place in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood, around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. The 27-year-old teacher got bumped while attempting to stop a fight in the hallway during school dismal. He started to feel [...]
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CARY — A West Lake Middle School student was subdued with a Taser stun gun Monday to break up a campus fight, authorities said. The Cary police officer assigned as West Lake’s school resource officer was responding to a fight between a female student and a significantly smaller male student, according to Michael Evans, a [...]
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