2 shot by police in less than an hour on S. Side
A person was shot to death by Chicago Police officers while trying to drive away from a traffic stop in the South Shore neighborhood, marking the city’s second officer-involved shooting in less than an hour Thursday night on the South Side, police said.
About 7:30 p.m., officers in the 7400 block of South Merrill pulled over a Jaguar convertible that had been reported stolen earlier in the day from southwest suburban Bolingbrook, according to CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
The Jaguar was blocked by at least two police vehicles, but the driver tried to take off, side-swiping one squad car and crashing into a parked vehicle, Guglielmi said.
Two officers then opened fire, police said.
The person shot, a male whose age was unknown, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died, police said.
Another person in the car was arrested and was being questioned Thursday night, police said.
An unspecified number of injured officers were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to Independent Police Review Authority spokeswoman Mia Sissac. It wasn’t immediately clear what their injuries were, but they were not shot, Sissac said.
The officers were wearing body cameras, and the police vehicles at the scene had their cameras activated, Guglielmi said.
In Englewood, just before 7 p.m., a robbery suspect was shot by Chicago Police.
About 6:50 p.m., officers were called to a robbery in the 6700 block of South May, according to a CPD statement and Sissac.
A 24-year-old man pointed officers to a man he said had robbed him, police said. They chased the suspect down a gangway and saw a weapon in his hand, police said.
The officers told him to drop it and shot him twice in “the lower extremities” when he didn’t, police said.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair-to-serious condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Investigators recovered a weapon, police said.
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7th New Yorker charged with fake ID at Apple store
A seventh New Yorker has been charged with using a fake ID and credit card to try to buy products at a north suburban Apple store.
Simone L. Signorelli, 22, was charged with burglary, identity theft, possession of a counterfeit credit card and unlawful use of a fraudulent ID to commit theft, all felonies, according to the Lake County sheriff ’s office.
The Deer Park Apple store contacted sheriff ’s detectives Wednesday and informed them a woman was attempting to fraudulently buy Apple products, according to the sheriff ’s office.
Deputies arrested Signorelli, who was ordered held on a $250,000 bond Thursday.
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Body in garage is woman missing since Sunday
A person found dead in a garbage bag in the garage of a Chatham neighborhood home Wednesday afternoon has been identified as a 20-year-old woman missing since Sunday.
The body in the garage in the 500 block of East 92nd Street was identified as 20-year-old Shante Bohanan, who lived in the 2800 block of West 66th Street, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Mitchell Armentrout,
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Man accused of battering deputies
A 21-year-old man has been charged with battering Cook County sheriff ’s deputies who were trying to take him into custody Monday morning at the Bridgeview courthouse.
Artavius Sims was ordered held without bond by Cook County Associate Judge Michael Kane for failing to meet the conditions of his probation on a drunk-driving charge. As courtroom deputies took Sims into custody, he pulled away from one deputy, causing her to fall and suffer serious injuries, according to the sheriff ’s office. Sims then punched another deputy in the face, and a third was struck by a podium as Sims tried to run away but ran into his own public defender, also knocking him to the ground. Jordan Owen