No injuries were reported after a Chicago police officer fired a shot during a foot chase of a shooting suspect Friday afternoon in the city’s South Shore neighborhood, authorities said.
Officers were in the 2000 block of East 71st Street just after 2 p.m., when they saw an “armed offender” fire multiple gunshots in the direction of an unknown victim and then flee the area on foot, Chicago police said in a preliminary statement.
As the officers followed in pursuit, one officer fired their weapon at the offender, police said. No injuries have been reported and police did not release a description of the gunman.
As of 6:20 p.m. Friday, no one was in custody as the department’s investigative response team investigated, police said.
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