Man Shot By Police On Northwest Side
UPDATED 01/09/12 6:56 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Police shot and wounded a man in the Northwest Side's Belmont-Cragin neighborhood Sunday night.
As WBBM Newsradio's Dave Marsett reports, the man was shot at 2129 N. Laramie Ave.
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"There was a 911 call – it was a domestic disturbance – and the offender, a male, had a gun," said Chicago Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Pat Camden.
Camden said the officers found the man's girlfriend on the street, who told a sergeant that her intoxicated boyfriend had a gun in the basement apartment.
The officers approached the apartment and knocked on the door, but the man didn't answer, Camden said. Police saw the man through a window with a .45 caliber handgun and told him to drop the weapon and open the door.
Instead, the man opened the door with the gun in his hands and officers shot him in the chest, Camden said.
The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical center in critical condition with a chest wound.
No officers were injured, police News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien said.
Grand Central Area detectives and the Independent Police Review Authority are investigating.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
