Crime & Safety
12-Year-Old Gang Member Packs Semi-Automatic Handgun in Lawndale
A child on the city's Southwest Side was arrested Tuesday evening for having a gun.
CHICAGO -- Police arrested a 12-year-old gang member on the city's Southwest Side Tuesday evening after reportedly receiving "multiple calls" about a person in the area with a gun.
The boy was found in Lawndale's 1800 block of South Kostner Avenue, Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a Wednesday morning Tweet. The Sun-Times Media reported that the child admitted to being in a gang during the police search that uncovered his semi-automatic handgun.
He was charged as a juvenile with unauthorized use of a weapon.
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