Hardly an Angel

We really wish people would do some research before going out on a limb:

• Police on Monday are asking for the public's help for information in the brutal murder of a 15-year-old CPS student found burned and shot in a South Side gangway Saturday afternoon.

  Alex Arellano, of the 8900 block of South Escanaba, was found badly burned with severe head wounds, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. He was found dead in the 3000 block of West 54th St., about 11 miles from his home.

  [...] Police said Arellano had no criminal history and was not affiliated with a gang.

Because someone is liable to come along with a saw:

He's even wearing the same freaking t-shirt! Call us naive, but that sure looks like he's broadcasting some sort of gang affiliation. Are those "bunny ears" he's throwing up? And the left hand disrespecting who? This was a simple MySpace search by a few readers and forwarded to us.

Granted, very few people deserve to get beaten, shot and burned like this kid was, but he wasn't some innocent child murdered out of the blue. He hadn't been to school since September 2008, didn't look like he was going to school any time soon, was running around a war zone eleven miles from home and represents on a social networking site.

Someone from News Affairs want to make a retraction about what this kid was about?

UPDATE: We guess someone doesn't want the website and the pictures of him throwing up for the nation to interfere with the "altar boy" image, so they took down the web page. Good thing we saved the photo in time.