BREAKING: A 24-year-old Chicago man was charged Saturday with shooting two police officers the day before on the city's West Side.
The two cops were shot early Friday after the gunman — identified as Kailo Harris-Caldwell — accidentally dropped his weapon in front of them, picked it up and started firing, authorities said.One of the officers was grazed in the face and the other wounded in the leg, police said. They went to Mount Sinai Hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.
Two Chicago police officers were shot early Friday on the West Side after a gunman accidentally dropped his weapon in front of them, picked it up and started firing, authorities said. One of the wounded officers radioed, "I got shot in the head, I got shot in the head. Dropped an extended clip right in front of me, picked it up, shot me, graze wound in the right side of my head and my partner was shot in the leg."
Brown said a gun was found nearby. "We’ve retrieved a gun and detectives are on scene getting as much information, video and witness information as we can," he said.Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said one person is in custody after two police officers were shot Friday morning on the West Side.
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