Police: Teen Beaten with Bat Had Beef with Defendant

Mount Pleasant police say the 17-year-old boy beaten with a bat on St. Patrick's Day admitted to officers he and his friends tried to lure one of the defendants into a fight.

in Racine County Circuit Court with three counts of felony child abuse/use of a dangerous weapon, one count of contributing to the deliquency of a child and one count of criminal damage to property. If convicted, they each face up to 40 years, three months in jail and/or up to $95,000 in fines. There could be additional penalties for both because the charges include use of a dangerous weapon.

A third assailant is a 16-year-old juvenile and is not being named. He remains at the Racine County Juvenile Intake Facility on similar charges.

According to the criminal complaint, four 17-year-old boys visited the Schram residence because one of them was having an on-going altercation with Kevin Schram. They were yelling and trying to get Kevin out of the house so they could fight. When Kevin didn't emerge, the boys left to take a girl passenger home.

After dropping off their friend, police say the boys got a call from George Schram to come back. When they returned to the Schram residence, the boys told officers, there were a lot of people outside the home. Feeling outnumbered, the boys drove away in a silver car to flee but were pursued.

At some point during the chase, the teen driving the car turned down Rosalind Avenue in the Lake Park neighborhood, but it was a dead end and he got stuck in a snow bank, the complaint reads.

. He was taken to the hospital and kept overnight for observation. Another boy had a large bruise on his back and a third was complaining about pain in his hand.

Officers say the boys reported they were boxed in by two pick-up trucks. One of the teens told police he observed George Schram smash out the windows of the car with a baseball bat. Another boy told officers that Kevin Schram and another person grabbed the driver of their vehicle out of the car and hit him with a baseball bat, knocking him down and striking him again.

A third boy reported trying to defend himself against getting hit with a baseball bat, resulting in a broken wrist and several fractures in his hand. The fourth boy was also struck with a bat first to knock him down and then several more times while he was down, the complaint reads.

Originally, MPPD reported the boys told them they didn't know their assailants or why they were chased.

Both Schrams remain in the Racine County Jail on a $5,000 cash bond for each. They will have their preliminary hearings on April 4.