In a case that underscores the growing concerns around youth violence in Chicago, two boys — just 14 years old — have been charged with a brutal armed carjacking that left a 39-year-old man critically injured last month in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood.
Chicago police say the two teens, who are not even legally old enough to drive, helped orchestrate a violent early-morning ambush on June 10 around 4:15 a.m. in the 1700 block of West Peterson Avenue.
According to a police report, the boys, along with two unidentified accomplices, pulled up in a white sedan and struck the victim with the vehicle. Authorities said the group, which had at least one firearm, stole the man’s belongings and fled in his blue Toyota Highlander, leaving him with injuries so severe he was taken to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition…