Armed group carjacks 16-year-old boy at gunpoint in LeClaire Courts: Chicago police

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Saturday, December 30, 2023
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- An armed group carjacked a 16-year-old boy at gunpoint on Chicago's Southwest Side on Saturday morning, police said.

Police said the carjacking happened in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood's 4400 block of South Lawler Avenue at about 11:20 a.m.

A teen boy was inside a stopped vehicle when three armed people approached him, police said. One of the offenders demanded the victim's vehicle, and he complied.

Police said the armed group then got into the teen's vehicle and fled the scene in an unknown direction.

No injuries were reported. No one is in custody and area detectives are investigating.

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