A Chicago police officer was critically injured Sunday afternoon during a brief shootout. in Englewood area on in citySouth side.
An unidentified male officer and a male criminal were wounded. in in area of 69th Street and Sangamon Street, authorities said.
The officer was taken to the university. of Chicago Medical Center in The condition is serious but stable, according to police superintendent David Brown.
Afternoon news conference outside of Hyde Park Medical Center, Brown said he spoke with wounded officer and team. He described them as “shaken” after second shooting in less than a week in area.
A policewoman was injured during a traffic stop on Wednesday in Englewood. next that day, an officer of the canine police and a deputy US marshal were wounded during a shootout. on Northwest side.
Brown told reporters Sunday that three uniformed Chicago cops were driving. in unmarked car in block 6900 of South Sangamon Street around 2:00 pm when they made transport stop. car they stopped drove into the alley with a dead the end, he said.
“The perpetrator got out of in car and started firing officers, and there was an exchange of Shooting,” Brown said. “The officer was hit twice once in hand, once in torso. The perpetrator was also struck. Criminal in critical state and officer in condition is serious but stable.
Brown said no know how a lot of times the culprit has been shot and the police will keep off reveal details until the video is viewed of Incident.
Brown blamed “impertinence” for 500% increase in attacks against police officers over in past two years. “Criminals are arrogant in harming officers,” Brown told reporters.
In a statement posted Sunday on Twitter Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on The US Senate must take action to end access to illegal weapons. “How many officers and residents should become victims of gun violence before acting? Lightfoot said.
second police shooting came like bad news for some Englewood residents hope avoid Violence is approaching summer.
Asia Butler, co-founder and CEO of Association of Residents of Greater Englewood noted that Sunday’s shooting occurred during a nationwide Wear Orange Weekend. campaign protection for the end gun violence. “Something more should happen than just events,” she said.
Butler said new efforts are being made to help bridge the gap between police and community and increase visibility and awareness between block clubs and neighborhood associations like RAGE But she said she’s hard to reach people committing these types of crimes.
“I definitely think some bold strategies need to be implemented,” Butler said. “What is it, I don’t know. But I think we’ll have to stop doing what we usually do and start really think differently way we deal with violence in in community”.
Darryl Smith – President of Englewood Political Task Force, group mobilizes citizens for community action. “It’s a sad situation when any policeman gets shot. You have good police and you have bad police,” he said.
Smith group also works to bridge the communication gap between skeptical and fearful residents and local police officers. Smith group and other local activists worked to reduce tensions between police and residents. in 2020 after death of George Floyd and police shooting of Latrell Allen, which caused an uproar and was associated with looting in the city center.
shooting like Sunday, according to Smith, makes it “harder.” for us try to get community attract with police, because now there are many of people get upset when a person is shot by the police… but we have to know all of details, inputs and outputs of all the circumstances related to this case,” he said.
Smith, who was in southern suburbs when he heard of shot, said he was planning head back to Englewood to talk with residents. “I’m heading back next door to try to make sure there’s a lull in there because a suspect has been shot, also,” he said. “We must do sure there was no foul play on police side and community in noise so I have to go back and put your ears to the ground and see what happens on”.
