Person Waving Gun In McDonald's Parking Lot Leads To Arrest Of 2 Teens: Police

By Sam Borcia, the Lake & McHenry County Scanner

A 17-year-old and 18-year-old were both arrested after police responded to a call of a person waving a handgun around in the parking lot of a Woodstock McDonald’s.

The Woodstock Police Department responded around 8 p.m. Tuesday on April 13 to the McDonald’s, 250 South Eastwood Drive in Woodstock.

Officials said that a person called 911 after witnessing a subject waving a handgun around while sitting inside a parked car in the parking lot.

Responding officers located the vehicle and made contact with four occupants inside the vehicle. Officers recovered two loaded handguns inside the vehicle.

Marquise Murray, 18, and a 17-year-old male juvenile were both taken into custody at the scene and transported to the Woodstock Police Department.

Murray, of the 4900 block of Kimball Avenue in Carpentersville, was charged with possession of a firearm without a FOID, a Class A misdemeanor.

The 17-year-old boy was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, a Class 4 felony.

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Murray was released from the Woodstock Police Department after posting $100 cash for his $1,000 bond.

The juvenile was transported to the Kane County Juvenile Detention Center in St. Charles to await a detention hearing at the McHenry County courthouse.

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