Chicago police charge boy, 13, with felony for gunpoint carjacking

CHICAGO - A 13-year-old boy has been hit with a felony charge in connection with a carjacking in November when he allegedly stole a vehicle at gunpoint from a man in Kenwood on the South Side, police said Thursday.

The teen, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was arrested Wednesday morning by Chicago Police Department’s Vehicular Hijacking Task Force and charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, police said.

Investigators were able to link the teen to a carjacking on Nov. 21, 2020, when he "took a vehicle by force" from a 33-year-old man in the 4700 block of South Woodlawn Avenue, police said.

Police Superintendent David Brown said the boy had turned 13 years old "the day before he put a gun to the victim's head."

The teen, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was arrested Wednesday morning by Chicago Police Department’s Vehicular Hijacking Task Force and charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, police said.

Investigators were able to link the teen to a carjacking on Nov. 21, 2020, when he "took a vehicle by force" from a 33-year-old man in the 4700 block of South Woodlawn Avenue, police said.

Police Superintendent David Brown said the boy had turned 13 years old "the day before he put a gun to the victim's head."

The teen, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was arrested Wednesday morning by Chicago Police Department’s Vehicular Hijacking Task Force and charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, police said.

Investigators were able to link the teen to a carjacking on Nov. 21, 2020, when he "took a vehicle by force" from a 33-year-old man in the 4700 block of South Woodlawn Avenue, police said.

Police Superintendent David Brown said the boy had turned 13 years old "the day before he put a gun to the victim's head."