The 1969 Raid That Killed Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton Details around the 1969 police shooting of Hampton and other Black Panther members took decades to come to light. Author: Fred Hampton speaks at a rally in Chicago's Grant Park in September 1969. Credit: Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Details around the 1969 police shooting of Hampton and other Black Panther members took decades to come to light. Early in the predawn hours of December 4, 1969, a Peoples Gas truck pulled up in front of an apartment building at 2337 W. Monroe St. in the West Side of Chicago. Fourteen plainclothes Chicago Police officers quietly filed out of the undercover truck, armed with pistols, a shotgun, a machine gun, and a detailed map of their target, an apartment occupied by leaders of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party.