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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom Schuba

Boy, 16, charged in mass shooting outside Juarez high school that killed 2 teens, wounded 2 others

A mourner pays respect Dec. 19, 2002, at a vigil outside Benito Juarez Community Academy in Pilsen, three days after a mass shooting there killed two teenagers and wounded two others. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

A 16-year-old boy was charged Friday with carrying out a deadly mass shooting outside Juarez Community Academy in Pilsen late last year that killed two teenagers and wounded two others.

The boy, whose name was not released, was charged as an adult with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the afternoon attack on Dec. 16 near the high school in the 2100 block of South Laflin Street, officials said at a news conference at Chicago police headquarters.

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