Chicago police -- under intense scrutiny in recent months over officer-involved shootings -- were involved in another on Saturday morning, an incident that left two people dead, police said.
The
latest officer-involved shooting happened around 4:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m.
ET) Saturday near West Garfield Park, Chicago police spokeswoman Ana
Pacheco said.
In a later press release, police explained that officers had gone to the location for "a domestic
disturbance.""Upon arrival, officers were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer's weapon,fatally wounding two individuals," the police said.
The department did not identify those killed, including what (if anything) they had to do with the reported disturbance.
But
a Chicago fire dispatcher reported that a 19-year-old man and
56-year-old woman were transported from the area after the shooting.
Janet Cookery, the mother of the 19-year-old,sammynaija.blogspot.com that her son died.
"I went to the hospital; my son has seven bullet wounds in him," Cookery said. "And that's too much."
Cookery added that her son had been in college studying engineering.sobbing. so sad
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