Posted on 09/27/2017 4:16:50 PM PDT by Main Street
Suburban Illinois police are asking for witnesses to speak out after an attack at a Six Flags theme park near Chicago left a family hospitalized.
Three family members were attacked by a group of nine people – one adult and eight teens – Saturday night around 9 p.m. during Fright Fest, the Lake County News Sun reported.
Gurnee police officials told the newspaper the attack happened “after members of the larger group apparently cut in line and were using foul language when the family exchanged words with them.”
Police say the family — a 51-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy — were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The altercation began with a discussion, and then the suspects allegedly hit the 12-year-old, according to police. The father tried to pull the attacker off his son and was knocked to the ground. Then, the group, “surrounded him and hit him with punches and kicks,” The Lake County News Sun reported.
The wife tried to help her husband and son, and was also attacked.
“It did not appear that anyone immediately came to their aid, but numerous people reached out to Six Flags employees as well as calling 911 to get them help,” police told the paper.
Police arrested the nine suspects, who range in age from 15 to 18. Police are asking for any more witnesses to contact them.
“We urge anyone with video information to come forward,” Gurnee police officer Daniel Ruth said. Footage from the parks’ security cameras has been “inconclusive,” police told The Lake County News Sun.
“We believe there were more witnesses that did not come forward, and any video would be useful to the investigation,” Ruth said. “We urge anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward and make a statement.”
Six Flags Great America said in a statement to The Lake County News Sun:
“The safety of our guests and team members is our top priority and we have zero tolerance for reckless behavior. The perpetrators were taken into custody by local authorities…. This was an isolated incident and Gurnee police along with our own security personnel responded promptly.”
Dats da plan Jonascord !!
“Fear the Amish” says the man in the photo with a fake beard!
Paging Colin Flaherty...
Six Flags over Georgia was removed from the List of Places I Will Go some years ago.
I am sure BLM and the NFL will be right on it.
"Some of my best friends are kneegoers."
Thanks, Anonymous User. You're my hero!!
This happens in every amusement park in the nation. Some “people” ain’t about standin’ in no line.
Kinda like illegal aliens
Weird Al is freakishly sexy.
There.
I said it.
I was subjected to this gang tactic a Chicago area park when I was a kid. Probably a good thing I held my tongue.
And, no one in the crowd helped the family? Disgusting! It is long past time that these punks need to be beaten to a pulp.
Knee-going negros?
The Park has to know these incidents will shut it down.
Love it, just a suggestion make it one word. KneeGoers. I think more people may get it that way.
"Oh, I get it!"
Teens....mediaspeak for feral blacks.
They have called the tune. Soon it will be time to pay the fiddler.
Derbyshire had a rule that addressed this exact scenario.
I try to counsel my wife on this stuff; she still doesn’t get it.
She thinks that once she is on the ground, they will show magnanimity and cease kicking her in the head until she is dead.
I told her that to apply her morals to savages puts her at a great, great disadvantage.
Chicago.
They’ll be on the street in no time.
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