Carjacking suspect, 13, shot by police in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood – Chicago Tribune

A teen authorities imagine was concerned in stealing a automobile was shot and critically injured as he ran from Chicago police officers in the South Austin neighborhood Wednesday evening, based on Chicago police and fireplace officers.

The boy who was shot is 13, and he was shot as soon as, stated Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.

Officers had been attempting “to stop a stolen vehicle wanted in connection with a vehicular hijacking from a neighboring suburb,” in the 800 block of North Cicero Avenue round 10:15 p.m., based on a press release from Chicago police.

Oak Park police had been on the lookout for the automobile, Chicago police confirmed.

“As officers approached the vehicle,” the assertion stated, the boy took off working down the block, “where an officer discharged his weapon,” wounding him.

“When Chicago Fire (Department) arrived on scene, the Chicago Police Department was rendering medical aid to the patient on the ground,” Langford stated.

The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital’s pediatric unit, the place he was listed in severe situation, Langford stated.

Officers “immediately rendered aid” to the boy, police confirmed.

No police officers had been injured.

Police wouldn’t say if the boy shot was armed, if a weapon was recovered from or close to him, or if he did something to make officers concern for his or her lives, as a substitute referring the Tribune to the police assertion, which didn’t embrace that data.

Officials stated not less than one different suspected carjacker drove off in the “wanted vehicle,” which later was discovered, unoccupied, in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street, west of Garfield Park.

No data was offered in regards to the automobile kind, nor was a bodily description of the second one who fled offered. The assertion appeared to point the second individual had not been situated.

Two police officers had been taken to a hospital “for observation” and had been listed in good situation, the assertion stated.

The police taking pictures is below investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. As is routine, the officer or officers concerned might be assigned to administrative duties for 30 days.

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