Chicago police blocked off the 4300 block of South LaSalle Street after a police officer was shot on July 31, 2011. (Credit: CBS)
Updated 07/31/11 – 6:09 p.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago police officer was shot Sunday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.
At about 2:30 p.m., paramedics responded to a shooting at 150 W. 43rd St., where they found a Chicago police officer had been shot, according to a Fire Department spokesperson.
The 43-year-old officer was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition with a graze wound.
One high-ranking officer told CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine that the officer was “better than you and me.”
The injured officer told police that he exchanged shots with several men. It was unknown if any of those suspects were hit.
Police News Affairs Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti said the officer had received a tip about criminal activity at 80th and LaSalle Streets. He followed the suspects in his personal car as they took the Dan Ryan Expressway north to 47th Street, where they exited the expressway.
After getting off the expressway, one of the suspects shot the officer, hitting him in the side, according to Ursitti. The officer fired back and might have continued chasing the suspects briefly after he was shot.
He was picked up at 43rd and LaSalle and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a graze wound.
Sources said that five suspects fled the scene of the shooting in a car that might have bullet holes in it. Police have spent the afternoon searching for that car at various locations on the South Side.
Sources also said the suspects might have been involved in another shooting earlier in the day.
None of the suspects was in custody as of early Sunday evening.
No further information on what led to the shooting was immediately available.
(The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)
15 Comments
This is an outrage!! One shot police officer should be countered with twelve of these south side gangsters killed or imprisoned!!!!
July 31, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I’m with you Larry!
July 31, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Irrelevant information, it makes no difference.
July 31, 2011 at 4:18 pm
W T F Factor Overload.
July 31, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Why hasn’t the shooting of an IIT Public Safety Officer been reported? It happened last Wednesday on the school campus near 31st & State. One of the Officers was doing a routine patrol at around midnight, came upon an unknown man who without provocation shot at the Officer. Of course the Officer could not return fire due to his unable to carry his weapon because of the idiocy of the Public Safety Director.
July 31, 2011 at 4:56 pm
YEP! I work in that area and the security personnel at IIT ARE in danger often! They need to be armed@!
July 31, 2011 at 9:00 pm
call out NATIONAL GUARD AND HAVE A CURFEW,
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DO IT NOW.
July 31, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Was he On Duty, or Off Duty. And how is having a graze wound “better than you and me”?
July 31, 2011 at 6:24 pm
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I hope they catch the low life black ass criminal gangster that shot one of our brave officers. If they’ll shoot a cop, they’ll kill anyone, without even thinking twice about it.
August 1, 2011 at 8:43 am
I don’t believe the officer’s story.
August 1, 2011 at 9:13 am
What is there not to believe? Do you need to see his wound? Don’t you believe anyone would shoot a cop? You’re not one of those police haters that thinks everything CPD related is a conspiracy??
August 1, 2011 at 9:52 am
Does anyone know what is going on with the comment section on the week end shooting tallies story? It’s a top page story, but there is no comment section.
August 1, 2011 at 9:19 am
I do not believe the officer’s story. I do not believe THAT story regardless of who got shot.
August 1, 2011 at 11:26 am
Why is that?
August 1, 2011 at 11:53 am