CHICAGO — Members of the Chicago Police Department’s robbery task force shot and killed a man after he shot two people and fired at them near the 12th District police station overnight, according to a CPD media statement.
The officers declared a “10-1” police emergency upon seeing shots fired near Blue Island and Loomis around 1:16 a.m.
Police said two officers “encountered armed offenders, at which point both officers fired their weapons, striking an offender.” One of the allegedly armed offenders died from gunshot wounds. CPD did not say what happened to the second alleged offender.
CPD discovered a man and a woman with gunshot wounds in a Chevy Malibu nearby.
A woman, believed to be in her late 20s, suffered a gunshot wound to her chest and a 29-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the back of his head, according to preliminary information from the scene. Both were in critical condition.
The man who was fatally shot by police was identified as one of the people who shot the couple, according to the police statement.
A firearm was found at the scene and a witness saw a bullet hole in a marked CPD squad car nearby. Two officers were taken to a hospital for observation, but they were not shot, the CPD media statement said.
While police and fire department personnel were dealing with the shootings, a crowd emerged from a nearby bar at closing time, and some fights broke out in the street, adding to an already tense situation.
COPA, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, is investigating CPD’s involvement. The officers involved will be placed on administrative duties for at least 30 days, per CPD policy.
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