COPA releases video of police shooting that left man paralyzed on Near West Side
The video released by COPA Thursday shows Officer Fernando Ruiz jump out of his squad car and immediately start shooting.
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The video released by COPA Thursday shows Officer Fernando Ruiz jump out of his squad car and immediately start shooting.
The video released by COPA Thursday shows Officer Fernando Ruiz jumping out of his squad car and immediately starting shooting. The man in the car whom Ruiz shot, Raymond Comer, 38, is now paralyzed from the waist down.
Illinois State Police said 42-year-old Abram Perez was shot and killed after firing several shots at police in DeKalb County.
Police have said a suspect in a string of robberies attacked an undercover officer during a sting operation on Wednesday.
Newly released videos show a man attacking an undercover Gary police officer with a machete-like weapon earlier this week during an undercover sting, before police shot and killed the suspect.
Police were investigating a string of robberies stemming from fake social media marketplace sales, when the suspect allegedly tried to rob an undercover officer and attacked him with a machete-style weapon.
Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, of Chicago, faces six counts of attempted first-degree murder.
The suspect whom Chicago police shot and critically wounded on the city's North Side on Saturday after he allegedly shot a man and then opened fire on police and paramedics was charged with attempted first-degree murder.
Chicago police shot and critically injured a man who allegedly shot at police officers on the city's North Side Saturday morning.
The incident happened outside Brian Bemis Toyota of DeKalb, at 1890 Sycamore Rd., according to the mayor of DeKalb.
Police said a man stabbed someone in a Toyota dealership and was threatening officers with a knife when they fired. Jermont Terry reports.
This was the second incident in which police shot someone in DeKalb County, Illinois, in 24 hours.
DeKalb County Sheriff's officials said the suspect took a person hostage, but released them unharmed before the suspect shot at police.
Police shot and killed a man suspected in a shooting in Rockford, after he took a person hostage overnight and fired shots at officers in DeKalb Township, sheriff's officials said.
Police shot and killed a man suspected in a shooting in Rockford, after he took a person hostage overnight and fired shots at officers in DeKalb Township, sheriff's officials said.
Documents obtained by CBS News challenge the claim that a deputy's shooting of Sonya Massey was an isolated incident by one "rogue individual," as the then-sheriff said at the time.
This weekend marks 10 years since the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.
In the left turn lane, the driver is seen getting out of the car with a long gun raised. The driver fires at officers, and the officers fire back as the driver falls to the ground.
Aurora police said the incident did not involve their officers—but rather officers from the Plano Police Department and the Kendall County Sheriff’s office.
"We want to stop any police officer who does not deserve to wear the uniform or the badge, and certainly carry anything that's close to a deadly weapon," Massey family attorney Tony Romanucci said.
Attorneys for Sonya Massey's family are urging state lawmakers to consider new legislation in her name, aimed at preventing police officers with red flags from getting hired, after a sheriff's deputy shot and killed her inside her home this summer, and was later charged with murder.
Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell made the announcement nearly a month after Massey was killed and weeks of calls for his resignation.
The downstate Illinois sheriff who received criticism over his handling of the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, who was killed by a sheriff's deputy, announced he will retire by the end of the month.
The downstate Illinois sheriff who received criticism over his handling of the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, who was killed by a sheriff's deputy, announced he will retire by the end of the month.
The governor said Sheriff Jack Campbell "failed to explain how he ended up hiring this deputy sheriff" who shot and killed Massey.
