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A Chicago police officer responding to a domestic altercation call fatally shot a man in an apartment on the citys South Side on Monday morning, authorities said.

Jamar Jason Taylor hopped an Amtrak train from the West Coast Tuesday — the same day a warrant was issued for his arrest for a murder in Oakland.

ShotSpotter vigorously defended the reliability and validity of its system on Tuesday.

Officer Joshua Blas was on the scene and shot the offender. Blas then pulled both wounded officers into a CPD car, rushing them to the hospital.

A Chicago police officer has died, and another officer is fighting for his life following a traffic stop Saturday night that ended in gunfire, officials said.

Two Chicago police officers were shot Saturday — one of them fatally — in West Englewood on the South Side, according to Chicago police. The other officer is fighting for his life in critical condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

CHICAGO (AP) — One Chicago police officer died and another was wounded following an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop late Saturday, officials said.

The girl was struck in the foot and listed in good condition, Chicago police said.

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Activists on Thursday gathered at the Little Village alley where 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot by a Chicago Police Department officer calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to end the city’s use of a gunshot detection system that dispatched officers the night Toledo was killed. About 100 people joined a march from an alley near the intersection of West 24th Street and South Sawyer Avenue to the nearby office of Ald. Mike Rodriguez (22nd), whom event organizers targeted a...

Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times, Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times A Chicago police officer shot and wounded a person as he ran from a street stop in Bronzeville on the South Side Sunday night, authorities said. Plainclothes officers approached two people in the 4500 block of South Drexel Avenue around 9:40 p.m., according to a statement from the Chicago Police Department. One of them ran into an alley and an officer shot him, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good con...