Another misunderstood urban youth.
Via Chicago Tribune:
The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office announced felony aggravated battery charges have been filed in juvenile court against a Willowbrook teenager accused of beating up a 53-year-old Sikh man in Darien on Tuesday.
The state’s attorney’s office reported that at about 5:15 p.m. on Sept. 8, Darien police responded to a battery call near Cass Avenue and 69th.
When investigators arrived, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin said in a statement, they found an injured Inderjit Mukker in the front of his car with “cuts and bruises on his cheeks.”
Berlin said Mukker and the teenager who has been charged with the crime allegedly “were involved in a road rage incident” at some point.
“Following the altercation, Mukker and the defendant (allegedly) pulled their vehicles to the side of the road, where the teenager exited his vehicle and approached Mukker’s,” Berlin said. “Following an exchange of words between the two, the teenager allegedly punched Mukker in the face as he sat in his vehicle.”
The state’s attorney’s office reported the teen then fled.
The teenager was not named in the statement, which also did not give the boy’s age, but on Thursday, Darien police said the suspect in the beating case was 17.
Darien police officials said Mukker gave a description of the person who assaulted him and the license plate number of the car he was driving.
According to the state’s attorney’s office, when the police found the teenager at his house, he resisted arrest and punched a police officer in the face.[…]
Officials with the Sikh Coalition said Mukker was driving to a grocery store on South Cass Avenue when another driver began yelling at him, calling him a “terrorist” and “Bin Laden” and telling Mukker to “go back to your country.” They said the other driver repeatedly cut off Mukker’s vehicle, so he pulled over to let him pass. Instead, Mukker told the coalition, the other driver pulled in front of him, got out of his vehicle and repeatedly punched him in the face. The coalition reported that Mukker was knocked unconscious.
The Darien Police Chief Ernest Brown had said Thursday the police were investigating the incident as a hate crime. Brown could not be reached for comment on Friday.