PRAYER AT MURDER SITE -- Members of Milwaukee Intercity Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH), along with neighbors and friends of Charlie Young, Jr., join hands and recite the Our Father. The group held a prayer service Oct. 4 in front of the house where Young was beaten to death by a gang of youths Sept. 29. (Photo by Allen Fredrickson)

MILWAUKEE -- The neighborhood near Johnsons Park on the north side is one most Milwaukeeans are usually content to ignore, unless a particular crime is too horrifying to overlook.

Such a crime occurred Sept. 29, as a pack of boys and men, most in their early teens, beat Charlie Young Jr., 36, to death. More than a dozen have been arrested, and as of Tuesday nine teen-agers have been charged as adults, including three 13-year-olds.   Full story ...

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