A teenager was killed this afternoon in a police-involved shooting on the South Side in the city's Washington Park neighborhood.
The shooting happened shortly after 1 p.m. on the 5600 block of South State Street. The teen was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital but was later pronounced dead.
He was identified as Christian Green, 17
Pat Camden, spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, said that at about 1 p.m. a Second District tactical team saw an individual at 58th Street and Michigan Avenue in a school yard near where police had recently had a gang dispersal.
Camden said the officers wanted to talk to the male, who police believe is in his late teens. But he started walking away at a fast pace and then started running from police, Camden said.
He ran away from the school and by a liquor store at the corner of 57th and State Streets before heading across the street toward a vacant lot, Camden said.
At some point while he was running away from police, Camden said, a gun dropped from his waist band and he picked it up and pointed it at the officers.
"The officers fire," Camden said, recounting the events. "He's hit, he drops the gun again, tries to pick it up. Goes a couple feet away, falls to the ground."
.amden said a weapon was recovered, and Camden identified it as a semiautomatic hand gun.
10 comments:
Every time the police shoot want to shoot a nigga fo no reason they always say a gun fell from their waist. But who actually drops a gun. Nobody, seems made up if u ask me. Bitch ass police.
They're lying...
Yall police are lieing all yall the same shit as a gang except u kill and get away with it cuz yall r copz!
I knew Chris he is my brother in law he was a good person he would not point a gun at the cops he would not do no stupid shit like that and put his life in danger. Its hurts because he was so young only 17 yrs. Old he didnt go to prom or graduated from highschool yet he would have been a sen. In highschool. I just dont understand how the police lieing Chris is short he about 5'6 Skinny he has a baby face hw can u lie and say you fear for your life no if he ran because Chris was scared he feared for his life police r train to kill a grown angry police officer chased and gun my brother in law down I can not accept that we crying everyday since it happy you have ruin the 4th of July for us. Why did u have to do that they teach yall police officers to shoot n stop people you officers know how to shoot and not kill smh :-(.
I also want to say we love you and miss you :'-( it a piece of our heart missing Chris from your Sister in law #Team Christain Green :-(
A black cop shot that kid he did have a gun, pointed at him, I heard about 6 shots, I saw the kid get shot, after getting shot, H just stood there, and looked around, dropped the gun, and he bleeded, and looked down at the blood, and then, he dropped down, and people from all over the place came, and took pictures with the phones, and cops everywhere, and they tried to, help him, but nothing could be done
You people really need to learn how to spell and write proper and complete sentences that actually make sense! Rest in peace to the poor child who had his life snatched away.
Made up? Wow, you're obviously a delusional retard.
If a person is TREATED as a suspect their whole life, eventually they will have good reason to be suspected.
PROFILING IS A CRIME
EBONICS IS NOT IGNORANCE
I am a 25 year old white math professor in from Rhode Island watching DISCRIMINATION stain our youth with self loathing and anger.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Dr. Martin Luther King
That's crazy we need to start taking control of our community
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