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A screenshot from an interrogation video obtained by WBEZ shows a 15-year-old in a Waukegan police station — moments before detectives of that north suburb enter the room to interrogate him. The teen implicated himself in the Feb. 4, 2022, shooting of a Dollar General clerk. After the teen’s basketball team proved an alibi, prosecutors dropped charges. The video is spurring proposed changes to an Illinois law on juvenile interrogations.

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