Off Duty Shooting
An off-duty Chicago police officer managed to avoid being hit by gunfire in the Chatham neighborhood early this morning but a friend with him was hit, police said.
The two were outside a residence in the 7500 block of South Wabash Avenue about 2:20 a.m. when a gunman opened fire on the pair, said Police Officer Amina Greer, citing preliminary information.
The officer returned fire but missed, Greer said.
It was not clear if the site of the shooting was the officer's home.
No one is saying if the assailant knew he was shooting at an officer or if it was just a random ambush in that neck of the woods.
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posted by SCC at 6:31 AM
46 Comments:
Off topic, but important:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=8337455
And this is why I purchased the Ruger 380 LCP, and why my favorite movie is "Zulu".
u have a job... move out of the ghetto
2:20 a.m.
Nothing good happens at 2 am.
O.T. Any truth that 013th and 021st district stations will be shut down?
Why do these cops live in bustout areas?
What where these "trigger happy" off duty coppers doing out on the street at 2 am?
Isn't that past the alderman's curfew?
/end silly sarcasm rant.
I'm sorry...but returned fire and MISSED?
While I am glad the PO isn't hurt and I hope the Friend recovers...
Learn to hit that TEN Ring damnit.
they live in the ghetto because unless you are married and have two "nice" incomes coming in, THEY CANT AFFORD TO MOVE AND LIVE COMFORTABLY OUT OF THE "GHETTO" in this City! That is why the City offers POs 30k just to purchase a home and live in the ghetto!
I wonder what the back story on this is.
Why do these cops live in bustout areas
For the life of me, I can't figure that out either. I work in 011. Can't tell how many coworkers live in 011 and 015. I just don't get it.
And this is why I purchased the Ruger 380 LCP, and why my favorite movie is "Zulu".
My favorite is "The Naked Prey."
With everything going on with the city and the department...lets not lose sight....the off duty was not hurt and lets hope for a quick recovery for his friend. We all brothers in blue no matter what part of the city we live in....
OFF TOPIC:
Since the day SCC did the thread on this not guilty verdict and there were only 70 comments, and then there were only 30 comments about Vanecko screwing the pension, AGAIN. However, we did have over 80 comments on the dead CPD horse. I would suggest that our priorities are not in order with all due respect to Mikey C, the horse, but come on.
Your Safety and Your Pension, and after that, nothing else really matters on this job. Hopefully some of you will see the light.
Anyhow, people bashed Chuck Goudie for stealing this story from the blog but at least HE did something. Now, almost a week later, Channel 7 does a news story of it. Thank you Chuck, somebody is doing something.
Of course there is still nothing from any of the people at 189, from the FOP, from any of our leadership and especially nothing from G-Mac, and of course, and nothing, not a word from Tiny Dancer. When is Father Faker having another invitational sermon?
Here is the link:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=8339076
75th and Wabash?
You mean The 50?
I wouldn't want to be at 75th and Wabash on duty let alone off duty. You make good money get the hell out of the ghetto.
Anonymous said...
O.T. Any truth that 013th and 021st district stations will be shut down?
9/01/2011 12:00:00 PM
I thought they were already shut down.
To all you fucking idiots who say things like "you have a job move out of the ghetto" or "why do they live there." Whether it is the ghetto or a nice neighorhood every has to live somewhere and your home is your home. I know white people like to run when neighorhoods change, maybe if we did not run this city would be whole lot better place.
O.T. Any truth that 013th and 021st district stations will be shut down?
Yes, starting tomorrow.
they live in the ghetto because unless you are married and have two "nice" incomes coming in, THEY CANT AFFORD TO MOVE AND LIVE COMFORTABLY OUT OF THE "GHETTO" in this City! That is why the City offers POs 30k just to purchase a home and live in the ghetto!
They probably live in "bustout" areas because they aren't welcome in certain areas........you know just like I do that it is TRUE!
Your Safety and Your Pension, and after that, nothing else really matters on this job. Hopefully some of you will see the light.
Tru Dat, you dawg!
You know what's scary, I am willing to bet that the majority of these silly ass focusing on the wrong shit ass comments are coming from people who are the police. Since you got an opinion, how about learning to read because the article stated they did not know if the officer lived there. Tuition reimbursement is offered so go back to school dumbass.
...these ofcs. are starting to like the serenity near O'Hare Airport...
In todays climate with little respect for police on or off duty, I stay away from clubs, esp "the 50yardline" there have been atleast 8 or 9 shootings in or near there in the last five years!Very ruff area, esp at 2am. And to the joker talking about "bustout" areas, we dont all wanna live in mount greenwood, hogwash or far north...plus police kids are the worst nabors.
O.T. Any truth that 013th and 021st district stations will be shut down?
They should, 012 and 014 can meet at Chicago Ave, split all personnel between those 2 districts.
002 can absorb 021 entirely, all personnel in 021 go to 002.
O.T. Any truth that 013th and 021st district stations will be shut down?
They should, 012 and 014 could meet at Chicago Ave, split personnel by bid between the 2 districts.
002 absorbs 021, all personnel in 021 assigned to 002.
white people moved out because they didnt want to live in a shit neighborhood or raise their kids in a shit neighborhood... so f**K U AND F**K THE GHETTO U DOG ASS.
To all of you posters who are uninformed: 75th and wabash is a bar....frequented by all sorts...including off duty po's. They don't live there...they party there. I still wouldn't do it from the caliber of people I have seen going in and out of the place...but to each their own.
Please don't move next to "me.
Why do these cops live in these bustout areas?
2:16:00 pm
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Cops will be writing the same thing about your neighborhood in a few years, dork!!
Wow smh coppers!!!! I guess a dead horse gets more respect . What really happen to we're all blue . Really guys
Do cops still get mortgage deals from the city for living in shit neighborhoods? I know they had such a program in the past. If you think your life, and the lives and safety of your family matters, why would you live in a scumbag neighborhood. These brain dead murdering animals just shoot at people because they look like someone they don't like.
OMG! Went to the 013th district station an hour ago and it was CLOSED! The bank has foreclosed on the property and I believe I saw whores and drug addicts looking out the windows at me. Or maybe they were exempts.....
off-duty Chicago police officer managed to avoid being hit by gunfire in the Chatham neighborhood early this morning but a friend with him was hit,.
The two were outside a residence in the 7500 block of South Wabash Avenue about 2:20 a.m. when a gunman opened fire on the pair.
The officer returned fire but missed.
It was not clear if the site of the shooting was the officer's home.
The officer's friend, described as an adult male, was shot in the shoulder and taken to an area hospital in "stable" condition.
UPDATE: An off-duty Chicago Police officer returned fire at a suspect who shot and wounded the officer’s friend outside a South Side tavern early Thursday in the Park Manor neighborhood.
The officer chased down two suspects and found one of them reportedly hiding in a garbage can.
Two men are in custody after the incident, which happened about 2:30 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Wabash Avenue.
The incident unfolded as the men were standing outside Willa’s Fifty Yard Line at 69 E. 75th St., Gresham District Police Lt. Paula Schmeer said.
An off-duty officer and a friend were outside when a man approached and fired shots, striking the officer’s friend, Greer said. The officer returned fire, but did not hit anyone.
“It was all about a song the DJ was supposed to play,’’ according to the lieutenant.
Someone asked the DJ multiple times when he was going to play a certain song and that person was punched in the nose in the bar prior to the shooting, according to Schmeer.
Outside, the son of the person punched allegedly tried to shoot the DJ, but instead accidentally hit the officer’s friend, who was standing next to the DJ, according to the lieutenant. The officer was not the DJ.
The suspects ran south on Wabash but the officer gave chase and apprehended them a short time later, according to the lieutenant
I hate to inform what is apparently a large number of close minded white officers on this blog, but the 7400 and 7500 blocks of South Wabash are not 'ghetto areas.' That area is one of well tended homes and lawns, mostly occupied by older, solid middle class black Chicagoans. The area is one of the most quiet in the 003rd/006th Districts. The 'problem' in the area is the 50 Yard Line lounge, which occasionally attracts some of the young sleaze. Not much we can do about that, but the area itself is relatively crime free, other than the occasional burglary, like most other areas.
It is apparent from many posts here that many
of the posters are not familiar with many black
middle class enclaves in the Chicago area.
Chatham and Gresham are two of them. Of course,
demographics have changed a bit since the closing
of several Chicago area housing projects, and like
many other Chicagoans, we're all dealing with that
as best we can.
75th and Wabash used to be a nice quiet neighborhood and still can be if we fight back Let the thugs over run us and we're through.
O.T. Any truth that 013th and 021st district stations will be shut down?
They should, 012 and 014 can meet at Chicago Ave, split all personnel between those 2 districts.
002 can absorb 021 entirely, all personnel in 021 go to 002.
9/02/2011 12:39:00 AM
Please explain why, you fucking idiot? It is against our interests as police officers to advocate the closing of any bidding position(airport, 12 and 21)
In todays climate with little respect for police on or off duty, I stay away from clubs, esp "the 50yardline" there have been atleast 8 or 9 shootings in or near there in the last five years!Very ruff area, esp at 2am. And to the joker talking about "bustout" areas, we dont all wanna live in mount greenwood, hogwash or far north...plus police kids are the worst nabors.
*****
Jim's an ok Nabor.
We've seen what happens when officers move from Chatham into Beverly, Mt. Greenwood, etc. Some of the unleashed kids of cops commit hate crimes and get away with them. I'll stay in Chatham with my law-abiding family and neighbors, thank you very much!
Half the assholes screaming about "Ghetto this and Ghetto that" need to look up what the word means! Id rather live around assholes that live around my racist asshole coworkers! News flash! Mt. Greenwood, hogwash, and the northside are filled with assholes, it just isn't talked about. If everything not white is Ghetto go police where you live. There are enough issues faced in fucked up neighborhoods and in CPD without idiot racist!
I may have to work in a shithole Ghetto neighborhood but I can leave work and go home to a safe environment for me and my family.
i would love to police my own neighborhood but all the crying revs and nontax paying so called law abiding citizens are crying about their "honor students" getting killed.. so therfore im stuck working in the fu**ing ghetto and can only get to my good neighborhood with 15 plus years.
I am a white Sgt. and years back while asigned to TRU, I was amazed at all of the nice houses in the area of 74-79th and wabash. Folks take care of their property when they are paying for it ,working a real job and not Section 8, or dope boys. the lawns were groomed and no garbage on the streets.
Those of us who want to live with people of the same ethnicity thank you for staying on wabash. Sincerely a child of the race riots.....
I worked in 003 for 8 years and there are are nicer areas in three just like any other district.
75th/Wabash block itself is a working class area with nice homes and well kept lawns. Minimal calls for service there. However, the 50 yard line club/lounge attracts a lot of the criminal element for nearby "ghetto" areas. There are a lot of ODPO's that go to the 50 Yardline, and I don't understand that for the life of me. There have been numerous shootings there, fights, and just so much nonsense. Same with Rodney's, its closed now but I remember several shootings there as well and was surprised to find out a lot of ODPO's go there every weekend. I'm not going judge anyone, it's not my business what you do off duty, but there are certain places you should avoid. 50Yardline is one them. As well as Great America and some clubs in downtown are infested with shitbirds. I went to Joe's Bar on in 018 last month to celebrate a birthday, and while walking back to our car, there was some shitbirds yelling out SD to a car load of assholes on the street. A lot of coppers live in 008, and there are many "ghetto" areas in 008 as well. I know two years ago a ODPO got into a fight with some 26ers or Latin Kings in 008, and it was west of Midway airport, while walking his dog. So it dosen't matter where you are 003,018,Gurnee,IL and the 016th district will get it's share. Black,white, or hispanic it doesn't matter.
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