Two CPD Officers Injured When Gunshot Victim Strikes Squad Car While Fleeing Shooting
Police said a man was shot in the hand and chest while driving on the 700 block of South Independence Boulevard around 10:30 a.m.
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Police said a man was shot in the hand and chest while driving on the 700 block of South Independence Boulevard around 10:30 a.m.
Sources said a third party called police over the "domestic incident." Johnson's wife, CPD Lt. Nakia Fenner, cooperated with investigators, but Johnson left the scene before officers arrived, at which point in time he was the named offender & therefore "wanted."
The shooting happened around 12:30 p.m. near 26th and Ridgeway.
It took 14 hours from Sunday afternoon until Monday morning for chief crisis negotiators to bring a man down safely from a landing on Trump Tower, where he had been hanging from a climbing harness and threatening suicide.
In Mayor Lori Lightfoot's budget proposal calls for the Chicago Police Department to cut a big chunk of its own budget.
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The U.S. Coast Guard said it was up to the boat's owner to make arrangements to have it removed.
Kelly claimed LaPorta had shot himself with the officer's gun in a suicide attempt. It wasn't until 2017 that the case was revisited and investigators found that Kelly had pulled the trigger and then lied about it for nine years.
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The 31-year-old Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny took the stage on Sunday dressed in all white, donning a jersey with his last name, Ocasio, and the number 64.
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Congress went home for the holiday weekend without passing a budget bill.
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