COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — Three teenage boys allegedly took turns raping a teenage girl at gunpoint in Avalon Park Thursday night, prosecutors said Saturday.
Sixteen-year-old Antwan Brown, 15-year-old Jeremiah Seymour, and 15-year-old Kieran Smith are facing multiple felony counts of robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault. They were ordered held without bail Saturday.
Prosecutors said the three boys ambushed a 16-year-old girl after she got off a CTA bus in the 8100 block of South Harper Avenue about 11 p.m. on July 3.
Brown and Seymour pointed guns at the girl and took her cell phone and $100, said Assistant State's Attorney Mary Hain. At least one of the handguns was a black BB gun, according to court records.
The two then forced the girl into a nearby alley where they raped her while Smith kept a lookout, Hain said.
Smith allegedly asked "when it'd be his turn," Hain said, before he also sexual assaulted her. The three then fled the scene, and the 16-year-old girl began calling for help. She was later taken to Jackson Park Hospital where she was treated and released.
Police stopped the boys after they spotted them running from the scene but initially let them go because there was no alert about the sexual attack, prosecutors said.
But soon afterwards, officers arrested Seymour and Smith in the 8200 block of South Kenwood Avenue, just a few blocks from scene of the attack. Brown was arrested about two hours later at his grandmother's home in the 7800 block of South Ellis Avenue, prosecutors said.
Seymour, who lives in the same building as Brown's grandmother, had the 16-year-old girl's cell phone in his pocket, according to a police report, and the girl identified Seymour and Brown in a photo lineup, according to court records.
The three, dressed in juvenile detention center sweatshirts, stood before Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampis with their heads bowed. Chiampis noted the "two separate guns" used and the fact the boys "took turns" sexually assaulting the girl in her decision to deny bond.
"What's concering to me is their age," she said of the boys.
Brown, Seymour and Smith, of the 1500 block of East 76th Street, are students at Chicago Vocational High School, according to their public defender.
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