A Chicago Police officer was shot in the leg tonight in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side, according to preliminary reports.
A Chicago Fire Department ambulance was sent to the scene near the 13200 block of South Langley Avenue after the report of the shooting a little after 9:15 p.m..
UPDATE:
A Chicago police officer was shot in the leg Thursday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side, but the wound was not life-threatening and he was later joking with the police superintendent at a hospital.
The officer, 27 and two years on the force, was responding to a call of shots fired around 9:15 p.m. when he and another plainclothes officer approached a group of people in a parking lot near the 13200 block of South Langley Avenue, police said.
One of the people, holding his waistband, ran away and the officers chased him, according to Sup. Garry McCarthy said. The person turned around and fired and hit one of the officers in the thigh, police said.
His partner continued the chase and arrested the suspected gunman, a teen, police said. McCarthy said no gun has been recovered.
UPDATE:
A Far South Side man has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a Chicago police officer Thursday night, police said.
William T. Wright, 20, who lives in the area of 130th Street and Ellis Avenue, is charged in the shooting and being held on a Michigan warrant in connection with a parole violation
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