Angelique
06-18-2006, 09:34 PM
Boy falsely accused at 7 arrested in shootings. Youth, now 15, caught on surveillance tape.
CALUMET PARK, Ill. - A boy who won a $2 million settlement with the city of Chicago after being wrongly accused of murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1998 has been arrested in a double shooting in a south suburb, according to a news report.
The boy, now 15, was caught committing the crime on video surveillance with his older brother, authorities said Saturday.
“He turned around and looked at the camera with a gun in his hand,” Calumet Park Cmdr. Mel Davis told the Chicago Sun-Times. “It doesn’t get any clearer than that.”
One of the shooting victims, whose name was not released, was on life support at an area hospital, Calumet Park police Chief Mark Davis told the paper. The other victim suffered a bullet wound in the leg, but has talked to investigators.
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is reviewing the case. A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office did not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press.
The 15-year-old’s wrongful arrest eight years ago has caused police to approach the case with extreme caution, Mel Davis said.
But at the same time, this is a different case, he said.
“Our investigation is still going on. We have several witnesses we have to contact,” he said. “We want to make sure that when charges are filed, they are going to be the correct charges.”
The shooting happened around noon Wednesday at a gas station. The victims were parked in a car at the station when the 15-year-old allegedly approached the driver’s side door and his brother, who is 18, approached the passenger’s side, each holding handguns, the police chief said. Both teens opened fire, he said.
Both boys were brought to police on Thursday by their parents.
Neither have given statements to police, and they haven’t been questioned since they were first taken into custody, Mel Davis said.
In 1998 the younger brother, then 7, and another boy, then 8, were accused in the death of Ryan Harris, making them the youngest murder suspects in the nation at the time. It took almost a month before they were cleared in the killing after tests showed semen on the girl’s clothing could not have come from the children.
DNA tests later led prosecutors to charge Floyd Durr, a convicted sex offender, who pleaded guilty in April and was sentenced to life in prison.
A lawsuit subsequently filed by the boy’s family against the city of Chicago was settled last year for $2 million.
© 2006 The Associated Press.
*VERY doubtful his family will get $2 million again, and what are the chances he even got any of that money?
CALUMET PARK, Ill. - A boy who won a $2 million settlement with the city of Chicago after being wrongly accused of murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1998 has been arrested in a double shooting in a south suburb, according to a news report.
The boy, now 15, was caught committing the crime on video surveillance with his older brother, authorities said Saturday.
“He turned around and looked at the camera with a gun in his hand,” Calumet Park Cmdr. Mel Davis told the Chicago Sun-Times. “It doesn’t get any clearer than that.”
One of the shooting victims, whose name was not released, was on life support at an area hospital, Calumet Park police Chief Mark Davis told the paper. The other victim suffered a bullet wound in the leg, but has talked to investigators.
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is reviewing the case. A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office did not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press.
The 15-year-old’s wrongful arrest eight years ago has caused police to approach the case with extreme caution, Mel Davis said.
But at the same time, this is a different case, he said.
“Our investigation is still going on. We have several witnesses we have to contact,” he said. “We want to make sure that when charges are filed, they are going to be the correct charges.”
The shooting happened around noon Wednesday at a gas station. The victims were parked in a car at the station when the 15-year-old allegedly approached the driver’s side door and his brother, who is 18, approached the passenger’s side, each holding handguns, the police chief said. Both teens opened fire, he said.
Both boys were brought to police on Thursday by their parents.
Neither have given statements to police, and they haven’t been questioned since they were first taken into custody, Mel Davis said.
In 1998 the younger brother, then 7, and another boy, then 8, were accused in the death of Ryan Harris, making them the youngest murder suspects in the nation at the time. It took almost a month before they were cleared in the killing after tests showed semen on the girl’s clothing could not have come from the children.
DNA tests later led prosecutors to charge Floyd Durr, a convicted sex offender, who pleaded guilty in April and was sentenced to life in prison.
A lawsuit subsequently filed by the boy’s family against the city of Chicago was settled last year for $2 million.
© 2006 The Associated Press.
*VERY doubtful his family will get $2 million again, and what are the chances he even got any of that money?