CPD said as police 'struggled with an armed offender,' one officer discharged their weapon, hitting the offender.
A 40-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot by police during a struggle in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Police said around 11 p.m., two Chicago police officers from the Community Safety Team responded to a shotsspotter alert in the 5300 block of South May Street. Shotspotter helps police track alleged gunshots. Police arrived on the scene and approached a group of people. CPD said as police"struggled with an armed offender," one officer discharged their weapon, hitting the offender. A witness told CBS 2 that he heard the gunshots that officers were responding to in the first place.
"We were sitting in our home, Heard a couple pow pow pows, all of a sudden we heard over a 100 shots, it had to be an automatic weapon or assault rifle," Harry Williams said."It was so loud, I told my family duck."Suspect firearm recovered on scene.
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