Taxpayer relief shot. Shooting was not related to any Black Friday shopping.
Via Chicago Tribune:
A man was fatally shot by Chicago police after wounding two others, one fatally, early Friday in the Homan Square neighborhood, officials said.
Kevin Navarro, first deputy superintendent for the Chicago Police Department, said officers were responding about 12:25 a.m. Friday to a call of gunfire near the intersection of Harrison Street and Central Park Avenue in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.
When the officers arrived at the scene, they saw a man shooting another man while standing over him, Navarro said. The officers left their vehicles and engaged the shooter. At some point, the officers fatally wounded him, Navarro said.
The man, who had not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators believe that the man police fatally shot had wounded two men. Navarro said one of those men was pronounced dead and the other was shot in the arm. The surviving man’s condition was stabilized at an area hospital.
A weapon was found at the scene, according to a statement from police.
There weren’t any officers injured in the shooting.
The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the shooting. Mia Sissac, spokeswoman for IPRA, said investigators responded to the scene of the shooting to sort out what happened. If any video captured the shooting, Sissac said, it will be released to the public within 60 days.
A large crowd of relatives, neighbors and people who had been at a nearby bar gathered early Friday in the 600 block of Central Park Avenue as more than 20 patrol officers stood guard at the edge of where police had taped off as part of the crime scene.
Many in the crowd voiced their dismay at the police, with some yelling profanities at officers.
“That’s somebody’s cousin that you just murdered,” one woman yelled. “I bet if it was some white boy, the family would be getting consoled.”
HT: Officer Com