Lunch Hour Shooting in Downtown Chicago »
Posted By y_soitenly 2 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsAugust 28, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Chicago police fatally shot a man allegedly armed with a knife on State Street during the busy Thursday lunch hour.
The incident took place on State and Randolph at lunch time. People were everywhere. Police were called because a man was waving a knife around. They tried to subdue him but that failed, as did pepper spray. The man grabbed a woman and her purse. Then he took hold of a man and put a knife to his head. Police intervened.
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Among the officers who responded are partners assigned to Loop traffic. One of the shots fired by one officer hit his partner. The slug was stopped by the protective vest he was wearing.
"The officer who was hit in the vest actually had hands on the individual trying to disarm him. The other officer in ear of both his partner's life and the innocent victim, used his weapon striking both the offender, and his partner officer," said Supt. Jody Weis, Chicago Police. -
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