A Chicago police officer was shot near 75th Street and South Shore Drive about 7 p.m. tonight, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien.
The officer was taken to Northwestern Community Hospital in good condition with a wound to the shoulder, according to Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
Police News Affairs said it appeared the officer was wounded in the right shoulder and his wound did not appear to be life-threatening. Details of the shooting were still being collected, but there have been no immediate reports of any other injuries.
And then this detail:
- The Independent Police Review Authority was notified a few minutes after 7 p.m. of a police officer being shot on the 7400 block of South South Shore Drive, and the agency was sending investigators to the scene, according to IPRA spokesman Curtis Tarver.
Um, why? To see if the cop deserved it? The cop was the victim.
UPDATE: Shooter in custody. Officer released from the hospital. And evidently, the copper's partner got a round off, so we have no doubt IPRA is looking to see if they can hang him out to dry on some procedural charge - failure to yell, "Knock it off!" before firing in defense of his partner's life or something. He'll take 30 days no doubt.
UPDATE: Shooter in custody. Officer released from the hospital. And evidently, the copper's partner got a round off, so we have no doubt IPRA is looking to see if they can hang him out to dry on some procedural charge - failure to yell, "Knock it off!" before firing in defense of his partner's life or something. He'll take 30 days no doubt.
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