Crime & Safety

Young Ladies Follow Bus to Joliet West, Rush Teenage Sisters When They Get to School: Cops

One of attacked teens ended up hitting a Joliet West dean, police said.

Rebuffed in her attempt to fight two teenage sisters at a school bus stop, a young lady armed with a stun gun followed them all the way from the Hill to Joliet West where she attacked them outside the high school, police said.

The two sisters, ages 15 and 17, were waiting on Englewood Avenue for their school bus Monday morning when a car full of people pulled up, police said. One young lady, Kalah Boens, 21, of Park Forest allegedly emerged from the vehicle, brandished a stun gun and demanded to fight the sisters.

The sisters reportedly demurred, instead choosing to get on their bus and depart for Joliet West High School.

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But Boens and her crew followed and actually overtook the bus, police said, beating it to the high school where they waited for the sisters to arrive.

When they did, Boens and two younger girls, ages 15 and 16, rushed at them. A police officer, school dean and several security guards interceded and all five young women — and two young men — were detained.

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Boens was arrested and taken to the Will County jail. Two of her associates — Santrell Miller, 22, and Floyd Boens, 18, both of Chicago — were taken into custody on charges of criminal trespass to state supported property. Miller and Floyd Boens were released on their own recognizance.

The older of the sisters threatened and attacked by Kalah Boens hit a Joliet West dean, police said. She was taken to River Valley Juvenile Detention Center.

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