Chicago Officer Fatally Shoots Man Pointing Gun
A Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him after the officer and his partner chased the man for a few blocks in the Greater Grand Crossing area Sunday morning, a spokesman for Fraternal Order of Police said.
Police were on the scene of an incident in the 400 block of West Winneconna Parkway that began about 5 a.m., according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs, which did not have other details.
The Independent Police Review Authority was investigating a police-involved shooting at that location, but did not have details, a spokesman said. The Cook County medical examiner's office had been notified of a death there, but also did not have details.
A man, believed to be in his 20s, was shot to death by a Gresham District officer after the man pulled a gun out of a knit cap he was carrying and pointed it at the officer in a driveway on Winneconna, said Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 spokesman Patrick Camden.
The officer and his partner had been chasing the man from near 79th Street and Vincennes Avenue after seeing him running in the area, carrying something black, which turned out to be the cap from which he pulled the gun, Camden said.
No officers were injured in the incident, Camden said.
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