Crime & Safety
Cops Collar Teenage Boy For Allegedly Shooting Up Car Carrying Woman
A local teen was jailed for allegedly shooting at a woman.
A teenage boy went to juvenile jail for letting bullets fly at a woman driving on Englewood Avenue Halloween night.
The 15-year-old was taken into custody at a residence on Luther Avenue about 5 p.m. Thursday and booked into River Valley Juvenile Detention Center on a charge of aggravated discharge of a firearm.
The teen allegedly shot up a woman's car on Englewood Avenue about 5:30 the evening before.
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The woman was heading south on Englewood when the teen, who was riding in a car ahead of her, stuck a gun out and fired twice, police said. One bullet reportedly hit the hood of the woman's car and the other shattered a window.
The gun attack was in retaliation for a previous shooting investigated by the Will County Sheriff's Department, according to the Joliet police.
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