Chicago needs a pause for safety act to stop the shootings by dangerous individuals.
Via CBS Chicago
Two officers became the target of gunfire during a traffic stop late Friday night in Washington Heights. Two others were also wounded in the shooting.
CBS 2′s Courtney Gousman reports the two officers were taken to Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn along the man police say shot at the officers.
Police say that around 11:30 Friday night, two officers pulled over a vehicle at the corner of 93rd and Wallace. As they approached, a male passenger opened fire and wounded the officers.
A 38-year-old officer with 12 years of experience was shot in the knee. His 31-year-old partner, a six year police veteran, was saved when his police vest took the bullet. Both are expected to be ok.
“Our officers did return fire, ended up striking the male offender multiple times and the female offender, one time in the left shoulder,” said Chicago Police Deputy Superintendent Al Wysinger.
The male passenger and female driver are both in police custody. The driver was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park.
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Also from CBS Chicago we have the typical Chicago shootings:
Two people were killed and at least thirteen others have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening.
The most recent fatal shooting happened about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 5600 block of South Wabash Avenue found 18-year-old Brian Weekly and a 20-year-old man, both of whom had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were unresponsive in an alley, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Weekly, of the 1400 block of West 79th Street, was dead at the scene, authorities said. The 20-year-old was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition, police said.
Friday night, a 22-year-old woman was shot to death in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Carnesha Fort was shot multiple times about 10:45 p.m. near her home in the 100 block of North Keeler Avenue, authorities said.
She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she died at 11:25 p.m., authorities said. Police said the shooting may have been domestic-related.