CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago Police officer and an armed teen were both struck by a bullet when a gun discharged as police tried to take it from the teen in Englewood Thursday afternoon.
Police Supt. Larry Snelling said at 12:30 p.m., officers performed an investigatory stop on a 16-year-old boy in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue, and found the teen had a gun. Officers tried to take the handgun from the waistband in the teen’s front, and the gun discharged.
The 16-year-old boy was shot in the groin area, and the same bullet struck the officer in the leg—leaving a through-and-through wound, Snelling said.
Neither the officer nor the teen fired any shots deliberately.
Sources said the officer was shot was brought to the University of Chicago Medical Center in a squad car. There was a very large police presence outside UChicago Medicine in Hyde Park Thursday afternoon.
The teen was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County. Snelling said both the officer and the teen were in good condition.