Police say Donald Patrick got inside CPD's Homan Square facility and allegedly picked up multiple weapons before being shot by police.
Police say Donald Patrick got inside CPD's Homan Square facility from a fire escape, and allegedly picked up multiple weapons before being shot by police.earlier this week. Police say Donald Patrick, 47, got inside CPD's Homan Square facility from a fire escape, and allegedly picked up multiple weapons before being shot by police.
It was a harrowing experience for at least five SWAT officers Monday high up in the Homan Square CPD hub when prosecutors say Patrick climbed a fire escape and barged in on their training exercise. At first, Chicago Police SWAT officers may have thought the incident was being staged as part of their training drill. But quickly the incident went from an oddball occurrence by an intruder, to a full-fledged active shooter call, according to investigators who have meticulously put together a narrative of what happened around noon on Monday."These were guns that were being watched obviously, someone coming from the stairwell outside startled everyone," CPD Supt. David Brown said Monday. "Who is this person? Is this person associated with the training?" According to a charging document called a proffer, prosecutors say defendant Patrick "...entered the fifth floor, from the fire escape, went to the desk with the firearms and picked up three firearms. put one firearm in his pocket and carried a firearm in each hand..." Officers quickly alerted SWAT members on two floors below them they had an armed intruder. In the room, four police officers were on a catwalk used by supervisors to watch training, and a fifth was down in the room. Officer 2 yelled "gun gun," and then Patrick pointed the guns he grabbed at the group, the proffer said. One officer "jumped off the catwalk and went to retrieve his firearm," prosecutors said. That officer "... suffered a broken foot after jumping off the catwalk."
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