Police Officer shoots, kills man who pointed gun at him

A Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him after the officer and his partner chased the man for a few blocks in the Greater Grand Crossing area this morning a union spokesman said.
The shooting took place a little after 5 a.m. in the 500 block of West Winneconna Parkway, when a man pointed a gun at a Gresham District officer who then shot him, according to a news release from police.
The man was believed to be in his 20s, said Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 spokesman Patrick Camden.
The officer and his partner were on patrol, in uniform and in a marked squad car, when they saw a man running west on 79th Street near Vincennes Avenue, with a gun in his waistband.
The officers initially may have seen the man running while carrying a black object that turned out to be a knit cap that concealed a handgun, said Camden.
Officers told the man to stop, but he kept running. One officer got out of the squad car and pursued the man on foot, while the other followed in the car, according to police and Camden.
On Winneconna, the officer following in the car pulled into a driveway near where the man was running, and the man pulled a gun out.
The man pointed the gun at the officer and the officer shot him, police and Camden said. A gun was found at the scene.