A Chicago man who gunned down two Hyde Park High School students after a chance encounter at a neighborhood gas station will spend the rest of his life behind bars, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.
Judge Mary Brosnahan sentenced 25-year-old Laroy Battle on Thursday, five months after a jury needed just three hours to convict him on multiple counts of murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to court records.
The murders occurred around 5 p.m. on June 20, 2020, in an alley behind the 7900 block of South Luella Avenue in South Shore…