Man, teen charged with having guns at Fox Valley Mall in Aurora
Police say 18-year-old Alim Hartline had a loaded gun with a defaced serial number, and the 16-year-old boy also had a fully loaded gun.
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Police say 18-year-old Alim Hartline had a loaded gun with a defaced serial number, and the 16-year-old boy also had a fully loaded gun.
A young man and a teenage boy are charged with illegally having guns at the Fox Valley Mall.
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It has been four years since the deadly mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora – after which it was discovered that the gunman's Firearm Owners Identification Card had been revoked, but he still had a gun.
The goal is to prevent a recurrence of something like the Henry Pratt Company massacre of 2019. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
It has been four years since the deadly mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora – after which it was discovered that the gunman’s Firearm Owners Identification Card had been revoked, but he still had a gun. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports on a program that seeks to prevent such a situation.
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"Here we are for years later, still surrounded by all of this pain, and now we're daily hearing of all these other communities that are experiencing similar events in their schools and in the streets," said former Henry Pratt employee Anita Lewis.
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