Bails set for teens charged with hate crime in harassment at train station

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By Jason Meisner
Tribune reporter
5:39 p.m. CDT, July 8, 2011

Hate crime and battery charges have been filed against three teens accused of hurling anti-gay insults at a man and threatening him with a knife in a confrontation that began in a bathroom at Chicago’s Millennium station.

Mack Heard, 17, and Kendrick L. Towner, 18, both of Richton Park, were ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail each when they appeared today before Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil on a felony hate crime charge and a misdemeanor count of aggravated battery in a public place.

The third teen, a 14-year-old boy, was cited in a juvenile petition with the same offenses. He was not identified because of his age.

The incident began just before 8 p.m. Thursday in the train station in the 100 block of North Michigan Avenue.

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