Overview

• Two separate encounters hours apart on Chicago’s South and West sides involved knife-wielding individuals and ended with police gunfire.
• In Greater Grand Crossing, a 64-year-old off-duty Broadview officer shot a man who approached him with a knife as he exited his car; the suspect fled, was taken into custody, and hospitalized, and a knife was recovered.
• Chicago police say Investigative Response Team detectives are examining the South Side incident, and charges against that suspect are pending.
• In Austin, officers say a person with a large knife advanced toward civilians and police, ignored commands, and was not stopped by multiple taser deployments before one officer fired; the individual was hospitalized in serious condition.
• COPA is leading the use-of-force review of the West Side shooting and says the involved officer has been placed on routine administrative duties for at least 30 days; the agency also released videos from an Aug. 3 ambush on an off-duty officer, with no arrests reported in that case.