WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The mayor and the interim police chief of a Chicago suburb have apologized to a teenager who was wrongly charged in the shooting of a store clerk even though he was playing in a high school basketball game at the time of the shooting.
In news releases this week, Waukegan Mayor Ann Taylor and interim Police Chief Keith Zupec pointed to failures in the way the case was handled. Taylor said police arrested the 15-year-old at Waukegan High School days after the Feb. 4 shooting and charged him with attempted murder on Feb. 16.
He spent two days in juvenile detention before investigators realized he couldn’t have committed the crime because he was playing basketball when it happened.
