Man shot, seriously wounded by officer after traffic stop
A Chicago Police officer shot and seriously wounded aman Sunday evening after a traffic stop in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Officers pulled over a Dodge-Magnum about 8 p. m. just south of 43rd Street on Ashland Avenue. The stop was part of a narcotics investigation, according to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
As officers were taking the three occupants out of the Dodge, one of the men pushed an officer and ran, Guglielmi said. The man ran behind tractor trailers on 43rd Street, where an officer chased him and shot him multiple times.
The man, whose age wasn’t known, was undergoing surgery at Stroger Hospital Sunday night, Guglielmi said. He was listed in serious but stable condition and was expected to survive.
A 17- year- old boy in a nearby Dunkin’ Dont us said he saw police pull over the Dodge and then chase a man who was running.
Shootings “happen all the time around here,” he said, declining to give his name. “I’m scared.”
The boy said he saw the man who was shot throw an object onto the roof of the nearby Ashland Cold Storage warehouse. Officers were later seen on the roof of the warehouse.
No weapons were recovered at the scene, and no officers were injured.
The officer involved in the shooting will be placed on routine 30- day administrative leave.
Boy and 4- year- old girl shot in Hermosa
A 4- year- old girl and 14- year- old boy were shot Sunday night on the Northwest Side. About 9 p. m., the boy and girl were in a vehicle in the 4700 block of West North Avenue when another vehicle approached and someone inside fired shots, Chicago Police said.
The boy was shot in the leg, and the girl was shot in the ankle, police said. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
Passengers tackleman on Red Line: prosecutor
A man attacked a pregnant CTA conductor on a Red Line train early Saturday before passengers took him down at a North Side station, Cook County prosecutors said at his bond hearing on Sunday.
Saman Khaliq Griffiths, 19, has been charged with a felony count of aggravated battery to a transit employee, prosecutors said.
About 2: 45 a. m. Saturday, Griffiths allegedly grabbed the shirt and then pants of the 28- year- old conductor, 6 months pregnant, as the train made a regular stop at the Sheridan station in Lake View, prosecutors said. The conductor broke free and went into the passenger area, where passengers took Griffiths to the ground. His bail Sunday was set at $ 10,000.