CHICAGO (AP) — A 12-year-old boy who was shot by an elderly woman after he threw bricks at her has been sentenced to a year of probation.
Juvenile Court Judge Andrew Berman on Wednesday
also ordered the boy to perform 50 hours of community service, undergo
counseling and stay away from the woman who shot him.
The boy and a 13-year-old co-defendant pleaded
guilty last month to aggravated assault of a senior citizen and criminal damage
to property.
The woman, 68-year-old Margaret Matthews, shot at
the pair after they lobbed bricks at her and her South Side home.
The 12-year-old was shot in the shoulder. The other
boy, not yet sentenced, wasn't hurt.
Matthews didn't attend the sentencing. However, in a statement read by prosecutors, she blamed the parents for the boys' actions.
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