The man was 18 years old, said Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago Police spokesman.
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The shootings happened less than an hour apart on the city’s South Side.
A top Chicago police official says the department has “quite a few questions” after officers shot and killed a suspect in a stolen vehicle investigation. That’s when at least two officers fired.
Meanwhile about 3-and-a-half miles east, police say someone sideswiped a squad auto fleeing a traffic stop, prompting two police officers to open fire.
Police repeatedly instructed the driver to “stop running, stop running” before they fired the last shots, Bulter said. The officers were taken to an area hospital for treatment. “We know that there is a precedence that our children are steadily being shot by the Chicago police and we are just outraged as a community”, said Eric Russell, Tree of Life Justice League of IL.
A person believed to be a male teenager was shot to death by police in a confrontation Thursday night in the South Shore neighborhood, authorities said. He was not hurt.
Meanwhile, police said an unknown number of officers were transported to University of Chicago Medical Center, however it was not clear with what injuries, but they were not shot, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Bulter said he saw two police officers barricade the driver’s auto, and said police fired seven shots at the driver’s vehicle.
The Independent Police Review Authority will review the footage and determine if the shooting was justified. They are expected to be OK.
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The second police-involved shooting occurred at 74th and Merrill around 7:30 p.m.
