Two Evanston men in custody for gun incident near Park School

Two men from Evanston were in custody Thursday for an incident near Park School the day before, Evanston Police said. Around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, a school employee called police to report seeing a man walking with what appeared to be a gun near Main Street and Ridge Avenue, near Park School, according to a press release from the Evanston Police Department. An officer saw a man who matched the caller’s description in the 800 block of Greenleaf Street and stopped him on the sidewalk Wednesday. They found an unloaded semiautomatic Glock 42 handgun in his waistband with an empty magazine, police said. The man was identified as Mahamat N. Abakar, 18, of the 900 block of Forest Ave., police said. Then, after reviewing school surveillance video, Park School’s assistant principal and school safety staff determined that a second individual was the person they had seen displaying what appeared to be a handgun near Park School. Staff then spotted that individual near the school again a