Felony charges will be announced against a Chicago police officer and a sergeant in connection with a July shootout between police and two men, both of whom were wounded in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood, officials said Thursday.
More information will be released Friday during a 10:30 a.m. news conference at 69 W. Washington St., said a news release from Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office.
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The shooting happened July 22 just after 6:50 a.m. the 1000 block of West 18th Street, when two major accidents unit officers who were driving to the police academy for training saw four people wearing masks loitering in front of a closed business, police have said.
After one officer identified himself as a Chicago Police Department officer, one of the people in the group pulled out a handgun, sparking an exchange of gunfire, police said.
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After the exchange of gunfire, both officers got out of their vehicle and the shooter, while running away, continued to fire shots at the officers, police said.
Two men were shot: a 35-year-old, who suffered a graze wound and who police called an innocent bystander, and a 23-year-old man, who was initially left in serious condition.
At the time, police Superintendent David Brown said it was not immediately clear if it was the officers or the gunman who had shot the two men.
