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Jabari Edwards, 28, was charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer in connection with the incident on Wednesday, June 1, police Supt. David Brown announced.
A suspect accused of shooting a Chicago police officer, leaving her in critical condition, has been arrested in Iowa, officials announced Wednesday.
Officer Erik Moreno and two other uniformed officers tried to make a traffic stop in the 6900 block of South Sangamon Street when he was shot in the torso and arm and rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious-but-stable condition.
The Chicago police officer was shot on Sunday — the third law enforcement official shot this past week.
The attorney noted that Jermone Halsey — who has a FOID card and a concealed carry license — told Chicago police at the hospital afterward that he feared for his safety when the officers boxed him in an alley. To Halsey, it was “just an SUV of three people … following him into an alley, getting out of their car with weapons drawn.”