14 year old black boy drops his gun on Chicago Gold Coast street

A 14-year-old boy is accused of dropping a gun in the middle of North Michigan Avenue in the Gold Coast yesterday afternoon, causing a disturbance, police said today.

The boy, of the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, was cited in a juvenile delinquency petition for unlawful use of a weapon, police said.

He was crossing the street Wednesday about 4:10 p.m. in the 800 block of North Michigan Avenue and caused a disturbance when he dropped a silver and black handgun in the median of Michigan Avenue in the view of two police officers, according to a police report.
 
The boy picked the gun up and placed it back in his waistband before the officers detained him, recovered the weapon and placed him into custody, the report said. The boy spent the night at a Juvenile Detention Center, police said.

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