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Youths arrested in gang beating
Four students were arrested Friday after attacking a fellow student in a gang
initiation ritual near Oriole Park School, one of the city's highest-performing
neighborhood elementary schools, police said Monday. The 13- and 14-year-old
kids punched the victim for 30 seconds as part of a Latin
Kings initiation in a park adjacent to the Far Northwest Side school,
said police spokesman Pat Camden. Three were charged with battery, the fourth
with intimidation and compelling gang membership. All four were suspended
for 10 days and could face expulsion hearings.