<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/3-teens-charged-armed-carjackings-far-south-side/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">By Jeramie Bizzle, CBS Chicago</a> Updated on: December 6, 2024 CHICAGO (CBS) — Three teenage boys were charged Thursday morning in separate armed carjackings on the city's Far South Side. The crimes happened on Wednesday in West Pullman and the other back in September in Washington Heights. In the first incident, police said two boys, 13 and 15, were identified as the suspects who carjacked a 70-year-old man at gunpoint on Wednesday around 10 p.m. in the 11900 block of South Loomis Street. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/3-teens-charged-armed-carjackings-far-south-side/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Click here for the full story via CBS Chicago</a> <hr />

<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/3-teens-charged-armed-carjackings-far-south-side/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">By Jeramie Bizzle, CBS Chicago</a>

Updated on: December 6, 2024 CHICAGO (CBS) — Three teenage boys were charged Thursday morning in separate armed carjackings on the city's Far South Side.

The crimes happened on Wednesday in West Pullman and the other back in September in Washington Heights. In the first incident, police said two boys, 13 and 15, were identified as the suspects who carjacked a 70-year-old man at gunpoint on Wednesday around 10 p.m. in the 11900 block of South Loomis Street.

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