An attempted robbery was thwarted at the Intersection of State St and Randolph Ave in downtown Chicago today. The information is limited at this time, the officer was injured and the offender has been shot dead. I will include more information as it becomes available. Please pray for the officer and that his injuries aren't serious.Video Link of Policeman injured.
Update: It is now being reported that the offender was killed in the incident.
Raw footage: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=6986048
Update: Superintendent Weis reported that the offender escalted the event as he took an elderly bystander hostage. The officers attempted to take the offender into custody and one officer in fear that his partner and victim would be injured by the offender, shot the offender multiple times and killed. One officer was also shot but the bullet struck his vest. He is in good condition.
Excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times:
A man brandishing a knife was fatally shot at State and Randolph. A police officer was wounded when he was shot by a fellow cop. He is expected to fully recover.
The officer was taken to the hospital for observation. He was reported in good condition.
The suspect was dead, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Just before 1 p.m., Chicago police went to Randolph and Wabash after receiving a report of a “man who was menacing people with a knife,” Weis said. Officers tried to subdue the suspect, giving him a blast of pepper spray but it had not effect.
Witnesses Angelo Watts and Roosevelt Daring saw the man backing away from police officers and waving a knife at them. “He was saying ‘Get back’ to the police,” said Daring. Six or seven police, with guns drawn, were shouting “Put down the weapon, drop the weapon,” according to Watts.
The knife-wielding man headed west to State and Randolph streets, where he “grabbed an elderly gentleman and held the knife to him.”
When the knife wielding man tried to grab a hostage in front of the Loehmann’s clothing store at the Northeast corner of State and Randolph, police fired at least six shots, striking the man in the chest and legs, witnesses said.
One officer tried to disarm the man while a second officer opened fire, striking the man with the knife and hitting his partner. The elderly man was not injured, Weis said.
“He was trying to murder the innocent, elderly gentlemen and with that escalation of force our officers were forced to engage him,” Weis said
“They were in very close proximity. The officer who was hit in the vest had actually had [his] hands on the individual — trying to disarm him. The [second] officer in fear of both his partner's life and the innocent victim, he used his weapon.,” Weis said.
Read further:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1738431,w-shooting-state-randolph-loop-chicago-0827.article
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