Chicago police say Tracey Watson stabbed a man on the street Monday in South Austin before the deadly police-involved shooting. Watson's family spoke out Wednesday and claimed the man was defending himself and his cousin, who were attacked by two men.
Police say Tracey Watson was stabbing another man before officers ordered him to drop his weaponRelatives of Tracey Watson , killed in a Chicago police-involved shooting Monday in South Austin, claim he was defending himself from an attack.A stabbing suspect was shot and killed in a police-involved shooting Monday night on the city's West Side. The suspect's family spoke to ABC7 on Wednesday.
Henry said Watson and another cousin were waiting at bus stop at Cicero and Gladys when two men confronted Tracey about urinating in public. He said one of the men punched Tracey in the face before running away. Watson's family said the two men who allegedly attacked him then flagged down a passing police car, as could be seen on surveillance video.
"When my cousin Claudell came up to the two guys, like 'what's going on?' The guy see he didn't have a gun, so he tried to swing on him again, and that's when my cousin Tracey came up and started fighting with him," Henry said. "My cousin said they never said 'drop the knife' or nothing," Henry said. "He said they didn't hear none of that. He said he was trying to tell them tase them before they started wrestling."
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