Friday, June 06, 2025

Chicago's kid carjackers: Inside the SRT Boys' yearslong crime spree

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

At the age when many kids are busy with homework and sports, he already was a seasoned bandit.

Just 12 years old and barely 5-foot-3, the boy had earned his stripes in a robbery crew, snatching iPhones on train platforms and flipping them for cash.

Now, he’s known on the street as Baby 7. And cops say the 15-year-old has been one of the most prolific members of a teenage crime ring that’s been running amok across Chicago: the SRT Boys.


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