Kids & Family

Community Dons Blue For Lake Forest Teen Injured in 2011 Crash

Lake Forest teen Jimmy Pequeno is in the hospital again after surgery on his birthday that his family hopes will hasten his recovery from injuries sustained in a 2011 car crash.

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If Lake Forest looked a bit more, well, blue, than usual Monday, it's likely you spotted some supporters of Jimmy Pequeno, the Lake Forest teen gravely injured in a June 2011 car crash.

To save his life, doctors put him into a medically-induced coma, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"el-toro-senior-in-coma-after-car-crash-making-miraculous-improvements"} --> from which he has yet to emerge. Pequeno's parents brought him back home to their , by Nicole Patteson, his longterm girlfriend and 2011

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