WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - A man who worked at a residential facility for troubled children in northern Illinois has pleaded not guilty to fatally choking a 16-year-old Chicago boy who lived there.
James Davis of Round Lake entered the plea Tuesday in Lake County court to charges of involuntary manslaughter and obstruction of justice.
The teen, Shaquan Allen, was living at the Allendale Association in Lake Villa. Police say Davis and another employee struggled with the boy while responding to a “behavioral issue” resulting in Davis putting him into a chokehold. The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital March 30. Police say the employees tried to pass the incident off as an accident by saying the boy slipped and struck his head.
The association has been under state monitoring since the death.
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