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2 Juveniles Arrested in West Side Beating Death

By Emily Morris | December 13, 2012 7:08am | Updated on December 13, 2012 12:35pm
 A 43-year-old man died after he was allegedly beaten by two juveniles who are in custody, police said. 
A 43-year-old man died after he was allegedly beaten by two juveniles who are in custody, police said. 
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CHICAGO — A  west suburban man died after he got into a fight with two juveniles in an Austin apartment Wednesday night, police said.

Anton Baker, 43, got into an altercation with the youths inside an apartment in the 1000 block of North Leclaire Avenue at 11 p.m., police said.

Baker, of the 1400 block of West Roosevelt Road in Broadview, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he died soon after from blunt head trauma, the Cook County medical examiner's office said.

The two juveniles are in custody with charges pending, police said.