A 17-year-old Mather High School student is charged with raping a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint in an Albany Park alley late last year while his accomplice held the victim’s friend at knifepoint nearby. Gerson Castillo Flores, originally from Colombia, was ordered detained pending trial by Luciano Panici, Jr.
Prosecutors told Panici that the victim and her friend, also 15, were walking toward a bridge to take pictures around 9:20 p.m. on November 21. As they approached the Rockwell Brown Line station, they noticed two males were following them and one, later identified as Flores, was wearing a ski mask.
The girls crossed the street to avoid the males, but Flores and his accomplice began chasing them, prosecutors said. The victim’s friend tripped and fell, separating the two. Flores allegedly caught up to the victim, began speaking to her in Spanish, which she did not understand, and pressed a dark gun to her chest…