Another boy beaten: 'Blood was all over street'

A 14-year-old boy was chased down a street in the Edgewater neighborhood this morning and hit with a pipe, fracturing his skull, according to police and witnesses.

While the boy underwent surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital, police canvassed the 6300 block of North Paulina for leads in the beating -- which came just a week after 16-year-old Derrion Albert was beaten to death on the Far South Side.

"He was covered in blood. Blood was all over the street," said the woman who called police to the scene. "It was all over his face, arms and coming down the back of his head."

The woman, who didn't want to be named, said she was driving home from work and looking for a parking space when she saw the teen lying in the road.

"Two little girls and another kid were with him, holding him down," she said. "I called 911, and the police arrived shortly.

"The kids told me someone threw something at his head. They were very scared. One of them told me they called the police but said they hung up when asked too many questions. I don't know what really happened, just that the boy was chased. I just saw him when he was lying in the road. Usually this is a pretty quiet neighborhood. I don't usually come home to seeing a little kid lying in the road covered in blood"

The boy was taken in critical condition to Children's Memorial Hospital.

The boy was chased down the street by three males about 7:45 p.m., Chicago Police Lt. Paul Kusinski said. The three caught up with him and beat him, one of them hitting the boy with a pipe, police said.

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