CHICAGO (CBS) – Three teenage boys were charged Thursday morning in separate armed carjackings on the city’s Far South Side.
The crimes occurred Wednesday in West Pullman and the other in September in Washington Heights.
In the first incident, police said two boys, 13 and 15, were identified as the suspects who carjacked a 70-year-old man at gunpoint in the 11900 block of South Loomis Street on Wednesday around 10 p.m.
Both were taken into custody about an hour later and charged with aggravated vehicle hijacking with a firearm.
Then, another boy, 16, was also taken into custody Wednesday in the 1100 block of South Hamilton Avenue after he was identified as one of the suspects who carjacked a 46-year-old woman at gunpoint in the 9900 block of South Hamilton Avenue on September 19 . South Halsted Street.
He was overcharged for hijacking vehicles with a firearm.
In both cases no further information was available.
