Police Shooting in 011

West side mayhem:

• A 23-year-old man was shot by police and a police officer was injured during an investigation of drug sales in the Humboldt Park neighborhood this morning, officials said.
  
  
  
• The incident began when a Chicago police vehicle with four tactical officers pulled up to the 3900 block of West Chicago Avenue to a known drug sales area, said Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Patrick Camden.
  
  According to Chicago Police Department News Affairs [...], the officers observed a "hand-to-hand exchange" of what they believed to be narcotics involving the wounded man and a group of four or five others.
  
  After the police vehicle pulled up to the men, one of the men fled from the area to an adjacent vacant lot with an officer pursuing on foot, Camden [...] said. At that time, a squad car was called in to assist, Camden said.
  
  As police were closing in on the suspect, the man ran into a parking lot and jumped into a van, locked the door and refused to get out, said Camden ...
  
  The police vehicle was maneuvered to block the van, preventing it from leaving the lot, Mirabelli said, but the suspect was able to move it backward and forward. The suspect began to do that -- "dangerous, erratic behavior" Mirabelli called it -- moving the vehicle in the direction of an officer who was between the van and the front bumper of the squad car blocking the lot.
  
  At that point, the officer jumped on the hood of the van to avoid getting hit as the man continued to drive, Camden said. As the van continued moving, the officer's leg got caught between the van and the grill of the police vehicle, Camden said.
  
  At that point, the officer believed the man was going to keep driving and fired his gun three times into the van, said Camden

It appears that the assailant will live to face charges.

Channel 7 continues their nonsense reporting with a headline that reads, "Officer Shoots, Injures Fleeing Man," giving the impression that the Department shoots people running away instead of the officer leaping onto the front end of a car that ended up pinning him against another squad car.

Best wishes to the injured Officer for a speedy recovery.