Using a walker and surrounded by cheering supporters, 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah walked slowly out of the Cook County Juvenile Court building Tuesday to return home with his parents.
The teen, who faces gun and resisting arrest charges, had spent Monday night in the county Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, where he’d been taken by Oak Lawn police following his release from the hospital. He was hospitalized for six day after suffering head and neck injuries when he was repeatedly punched by police as they arrested him last week following a traffic stop in the south suburb.
