ASSOCIATED PRESS The scene of an accident and deadly mob violence sits quiet except for some flowers and a sign in memory of Jack Moore on Saturday Aug. 3 on Chicagoās South Side. Seven men are charged with first-degree murder in the beating deaths of Moore and Anthony Stuckey who were pulled from their van that struck pedestrians Tuesday. Cook County Stateās Attorney spokesman Jerry Lawrence says each man was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of felony murder based on mob action and two counts of mob action.

CHICAGO ÷ Authorities charged seven people Saturday with killing two men. The men were stomped and beaten with bricks and stones when a mob attacked them after a traffic accident.

Each person was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of felony murder based on mob action and two counts of mob action in the deaths of Jack Moore, 62, and Anthony Stuckey, 49, said Jerry Lawrence, a spokesman for the Cook County Stateās Attorneyās office.

Robert Tucker, 20, and Antonio Fort, 16, were ordered held without bond Saturday. The other suspects ÷ Henry Lawrence, 47; his brother, Roosevelt Lawrence, 43; Lamont Motes, 20; James Ousley, 31; and Ricky Lawson, 43 ÷ were set to have bond hearings Sunday, the spokesman said.

Saturdayās hearing came four days after a mob pulled two men from a van that had hurtled a curb and struck a group of people sitting on a stoop of a home in the Oakland neighborhood of the city. Three women were hospitalized after the crash.

As the injured lay on the ground, the mob beat Moore, who was driving, and Stuckey to death with their hands, feet, bricks and stones, police said.

Tucker broke the driver-side window with his hands, punched Moore, pulled him out of the van and began to stomp on him, said Assistant Stateās Attorney Megan Goldish.

She said Tucker gave a videotaped confession and he had cuts on his arms that were likely caused by the broken window.

Fort, who was charged as an adult, allegedly helped pull Stuckey out of the van and kicked and beat him with a slab of concrete.

Fortās lawyer, Lawrence Wolf Levin, said Fort plans to plead innocent to the charges.

ĪIf he was there, he was there to help (the injured)," Levin said of his clientās involvement in the Tuesday incident. Fort was to begin his sophomore year in high school this fall and worked at a fast food restaurant.

Cook County Circuit Judge Nicholas Ford condemned the mobās attack on the two men.

"It is apparent that if this is their idea of justice, theyāre in the wrong city," Ford said.

Mooreās family was told of the charges soon after they were filed, said his second cousin Janet Jenkins.

"Weāve got mixed emotions right now," she said.

Autopsies revealed that Stuckey, an unemployed day laborer and factory worker, and Moore died from multiple injuries and blunt trauma, according to the Cook County Medical Examinerās office. Toxicology tests showed that Moore was legally drunk at the time of the crash, but police said that had no bearing on their investigation.

Police said the van would be examined. They didnāt know what caused the vehicle to veer off the street, but called it an accident.

After the incident, which gained nationwide attention, police, community activists and relatives of the two men urged witnesses to come forward. Meanwhile, police tried to track down dozens of people who may have witnessed the beatings.

Goldish said authorities have handwritten statements from witnesses implicating the defendants, all of whom authorities say have criminal backgrounds and were gang members. Fingerprints from two of the men were found on the van, police said.

On Saturday, one of the three people hit by the van remained in the hospital. Shani Lawrence, 26, was in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman.