HUMBOLDT PARK — Body-camera footage released Friday by the city’s police watchdog agency appears to show a Chicago police officer threatening to kill a fleeing driver seconds before firing six shots into his passenger side window and killing him.
The March 9 shooting in the 800 block of North Homan Avenue killed 42-year-old Derek Jordan, who was spotted driving a car that was wanted in connection to another shooting earlier that day on the Eisenhower Expressway near Oak Park, according to police.
The fatal shooting happened after police officers from the 11th District were trying to pull over Jordan for the previous shooting, according to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the initial police statement. Jordan attempted to flee from officers, hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk and driving down an alley until he was blocked by a CTA bus that was stopped perpendicular to the alley…