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Seven weeks after an Oak Forest teen was shot in the head in Mexico and flown to a Texas hospital for treatment, his mother said he is recovering, but the teen’s life will never be the same after surviving the shooting that killed his father, uncle and cousin in December.
Jason Peña, 14, was in a coma for several weeks after he was shot Dec. 27 on a highway near the town of Las Palmas, authorities in Mexico said. His father, Vicente Peña Jr., his uncle, Antonio Fernández, and a third man, Jorge Eduardo Vargas Aguirre, were killed in the shooting.
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Second suspect charged in death of 12-year-old Dalilah Batey
Tyler Q. Wright, of Calumet Heights, faces one felony count of child endangerment. Prosecutors said in court filings that he had invited Dalilah and five other children under 14 to the home, where there was a ghost gun and a loaded, semiautomatic gun with an extended magazine and a laser sight attachment. Read more here.
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