There have been two police-involved shootings Thursday evening, both on Chicago’s South Side.
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Chicago police say that officers stopped the auto Thursday evening in the city’s South Shore neighborhood and were exiting their own vehicle when the driver sped away, sideswiping a squad auto and a parked vehicle in the process.
Rico Bulter, 24, said he saw a police vehicle chasing and an officer or officers shooting at a auto near the corner of 73rd Street and Merrill. The Jaguar was blocked in by at least two police vehicles.
Officers then continued to follow the fleeing offender. The driver was rushed to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he later died. An IPRA spokesperson said an unspecified number of officers were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center for minor injuries.
The officers involved int he shooting will be placed on administrative duties for 30 days, which is standard department policy. Not only was Escalante on the scene, but investigators from the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police misconduct cases and officer-involved shootings, arrived and obtained footage from cameras that the officers were wearing or were mounted on their squad cars. They were not shot. “Then it was over with”. A weapon was recovered at the scene, police said. A 24-year-old man who said he had just been robbed told police the person who robbed him had run down a nearby gangway.
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A police spokesman said that it was standard procedure for officers to remove their body cameras and stop recording following a police shooting, so that the video from the incident could immediately be turned over to investigators.
