An armed man Chicago police said they shot and wounded as he ran from a car suspected of being involved in a shooting in Little Village minutes earlier has died.
The man, who was hit in the buttocks and taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Medical Center, was pronounced dead there at 2:30 p.m., said Sgt. Rocco Alioto, a police spokesman, and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His name and age were not immediately given.
The incident started around 12:25 p.m. when a Friday ShotSpotter detector picked up several shots in the 2600 block of South Hamlin Avenue. Responding officers pursued a Ford Focus that sped from the scene and then crashed into a light pole near an alley in the 3700 block of West 26th Street, the statement said.
Three people jumped out of the car, including a man with a gun, police said. Officers fired at him and recovered his gun. He and another male were taken into custody and another gun was found in the Focus, police said.
A female who fled from the car is still at large.
A male victim believed to be from the initial shooting on Hamlin Avenue was taken to a hospital with a graze wound to the head that was not life-threatening, police said.
Chicago police Chief of Operations Brian McDermott, speaking to reporters near the scene, would not say if the suspect shot by police had fired at officers.
The officers involved will be placed on administrative duties for 30 days, as is routine, while the Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigates the incident.
No officers were injured.
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