Man Charged With Shooting Chicago Cop In Little Village
(STMW) -- A man has been charged with the Monday afternoon shooting of a Chicago Police officer in the Little Village neighborhood.
According to police, Rafael Martir-Ubiles, 25, was charged with:
• One felony count of aggravated battery to a peace officer;
• One felony count of unlawful possession of a firearm by street gang member on person;
• One felony count of reckless conduct causing great bodily harm
• Two felony counts resisting/obstructing a peace officer
• One felony count of aggravated assault with a weapon to a peace officer
• One felony count of aggravated unlawful possession of a loaded firearm with out a FOID card.
Martir-Ubiles, of the 2400 block of South St. Louis, is scheduled to appear in bond court Thursday, police said.
Uniformed officers were on patrol in the area near the 2300 block of South Trumbull about 4:15 p.m. Monday when they saw three males "who looked suspicious," Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson told reporters outside Stroger Hospital on Monday evening.
While officers were filling out an incident report, the three took off, Johnson said. But police caught up to one of them in the alley between Trumbull and Homan and used a stun gun on him and took him into custody, Johnson said. A weapon was recovered.
At some point during a foot chase, the officer was shot in the shoulder.
The officer, a man with nine years in the department, was taken to Stroger Hospital, Johnson said. He was released from the hospital some time before Wednesday evening. A second officer suffered a cut to his hand.
"This is a good example of officers being pro-active and doing what we want them to do," Johnson said. "They were doing the right thing."
The two other males initially seen were not in police custody as of Wednesday evening.
Earlier this month, an officer was shot with a pellet gun in Austin, and in mid-March, three officers were shot in the Homan Square neighborhood.
"That's just another example of the proliferation of guns out here on the streets of Chicago," Johnson said.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2016. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
