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Teenagers charged in carjacking outdoors Addison movie show



A pair of youngsters accused of carjacking a pair at gunpoint at an Addison movie show then main police on a chase Sunday will likely be detained till a minimum of till their subsequent courtroom look, a DuPage County decide ordered Tuesday.

The kids, a 17-year-old boy from Bensenville and a 16-year-old boy from Willowbrook, every face one depend of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm and armed theft with a firearm, county prosecutors mentioned.

Authorities mentioned Addison police responded about 7:41 p.m. Sunday to a name of an armed carjacking on the theaters on the 1500 block of West Lake Road. Officers met with the victims, who reported that three armed males, two carrying ski masks, approached them within the theater’s car parking zone and demanded the keys to their 2014 Infinity.

The suspects then left within the Infinity in addition to a grey Dodge Challenger that had been parked a number of areas away, in response to the DuPage County State’s Legal professional’s Workplace.

A short while later, officers noticed the Infinity driving eastbound on Lake Road close to Villa Avenue, the place they tried a visitors cease. The Infiniti as an alternative continued to eastbound I-290, the place officers ended the pursuit, officers mentioned.

At roughly 8:32 p.m., Addison law enforcement officials positioned the Dodge touring westbound on I-290 close to Austin Boulevard, prosecutors mentioned. The Dodge exited I-290 at seventeenth Avenue and continued to drive with Addison and Elmhurst law enforcement officials following, authorities say.

When officers later tried to field within the automobile at Roosevelt Street and Harlem Avenue, the Dodge struck an unmarked squad card and continued to flee, prosecutors allege. Officers later efficiently boxed within the Dodge on the I-290 exit ramp at 1st Avenue and arrested the defendants, authorities mentioned.

The unoccupied Infinity was positioned roughly six minutes later in Maywood, officers mentioned.

Authorities mentioned they discovered a 3 handguns, one with a change to make it absolutely automated and one other with an prolonged journal loaded with 23 bullets, contained in the Dodge.

“This was a heinous act dedicated by people who don’t have any regard for human life,” Addison Police Chief Roy Selvik mentioned in a information launch Tuesday. “Individuals must really feel protected merely going to a movie show, and we’ll expend each useful resource doable taking these violent offenders into custody.”

The kids are scheduled to return to courtroom Jan. 9, in entrance of DuPage County Choose Demetrios Panoushis.

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