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GANG-BANGERS: Steal 55 Guns For Supposed Revenge Killing

Just some young kids having fun, nothing to see here.

Two Zion men are charged with stealing guns worth about $30,000 from a gun store, and investigators are looking into an allegation that they planned to retaliate against police for a controversial recent shooting by an officer, prosecutors said.

Lawrence Taylor and Clarence Williams, both 18, are charged with burglarizing a Zion gun store and stealing about 55 rifles, semi-automatic handguns and shotguns in two alleged break-ins the night of May 31 and early June 1, according to court records and Assistant State’s Attorney Reginald Mathews.

A 17-year-old is also in custody but had not been charged Wednesday morning, Mathews said.

Read more: Chicago Tribune