An armed man was shot by Chicago police officers inside a West Side CPD station Wednesday afternoon.
At about 12:52 p.m., an armed offender entered the 10th District station located at 3315 W. Ogden Ave., Supt. David Brown said during a news conference Wednesday."Officers see that the offender has a plastic bag wrapped in his hand and one of the officers immediately sees what appears to be a barrel of a gun protruding from the wrapped plastic bag that the offender is holding in his hand," said Brown.
Police, on Wednesday, said the suspect was not being cooperative with investigators. Officials said they took his fingerprints in an attempt to identify him.The officers involved in this shooting have been placed on routine administrative duties for 30 days.The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is handling this investigation.The shooting comes just over a week after a man was shot when he allegedly broke into CPD’s Homan Square Facility, also on the West Side, using a fire escape.
During a court hearing on Sept. 28, prosecutors said Patrick sought to recover property, though he had never been arrested in Chicago and there was nothing there belonging to him.
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