Addison Boy Aims Gun At Woman, Her Children: Cops

ADDISON, IL – A 16-year-old Addison boy is accused of aiming a gun at a mother and her five children in front of her house, authorities said.

The youth faces felony charges.

Shortly before midnight Wednesday, the teen was a passenger in a car that passed the family and their friends in the 200 block of South Yale Avenue in Addison, according to DuPage County prosecutors.

The youth pointed a gun equipped with a laser sight at the family while flashing gang signs and yelling "king love," prosecutors said.

The youth's mother gave the police permission to search her house. Officers found a Taurus G3C handgun with a loaded drum magazine and laser sight on his bed, police said.

"There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a sixteen-year-old boy to be in possession of a loaded firearm, particularly a gun equipped with a high-capacity drum magazine and a laser sight,” DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a news release. "What I find particularly troubling is the fact that this juvenile was on juvenile probation at the time he allegedly possessed this weapon."

The teen was charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon and counts of unlawful possession of a gun, possession of ammunition without a firearm owner's identification card and a violation of an order of protection.