Chicago Officer Suffers Graze Wound to Face in Shooting

Johnson said Tuesday’s violence was another example of the many dangers police officers face fighting crime on Chicago streets, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The shooting happened around 10 p.m. Tuesday near 100th Place and South Saint Lawrence in the Rosemoor neighborhood.

Officers tried to curb a vehicle, which matched the description of a stolen auto, in the 600 block of East 100th Place at around 10 p.m., a police spokeswoman told Chicagoist.

According to a source, citing preliminary information, the officer was either grazed in the face by a bullet or injured by a shard of glass when the suspect fired at the squad auto.

A Chicago teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer last month took his fatal wound in the back, an autopsy revealed Wednesday.

A second squad vehicle took up the pursuit and the person inside fired multiple shots at the second auto.

No one was hit in the exchange of gunfire.

The suspect then pulled out a weapon and fired upon the officers from the window of his vehicle, Johnson said.

Officers took the man, who is on parole, into custody. He is expected to be OK.

The vehicle the man had been driving was reported stolen earlier on Tuesday from the area 103rd Street and Lowe Avenue. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has said that the officer had only received the body camera about a week earlier and may not have been proficient in using it. A handgun was recovered at the scene, and charges are pending, police told Chicagoist on Wednesday morning.

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