Overview

• Chicago police say 35-year-old McKale Mitchell was charged with two counts of aggravated assault of a peace officer and two counts of unlawful firearm possession after an officer shot him in the leg during a Thursday foot chase in Roseland.
• Officers had sought to question Mitchell in a robbery investigation when he fled; police say he ignored repeated commands to drop a handgun before he was shot, and two firearms were recovered as COPA opened a use-of-force investigation and reassigned involved officers to administrative duties for at least 30 days.
• In Lake County, 18-year-old Yurem Mejia-Gomez was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the Ingleside drive-by that killed a 19-year-old outside a birthday party, with a K-9 aiding recovery of the suspected weapon and matching ammunition.
• Phoenix police fatally shot a man in his late 40s after officers arrived to find him holding a knife to a woman’s throat at an apartment complex near 83rd Avenue and Indian School Road, and the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s major incident division is investigating.
• Across Chicago, at least two people were killed and nine wounded in shootings reported through Sunday morning, according to compiled police reports.