Police shot and killed a man who was stabbing another man and came at officers with a hammer in the South Chicago neighborhood late Wednesday, with another officer suffering a graze wound from the gunfire, a police union spokesman said.
There was no exchange of gunfire as initially reported, but police were defending themselves against a man who police saw stabbing another man and who then came after officers with a hammer, authorities said.
Police responded to a call of a disturbance at South Shore Food & Liquors, 7900 S. South Shore Dr., about 11:45 p.m. and saw one man stabbing another on the street, said Patrick Camden, a spokesman for Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7.
Police approached and told the man to drop the knife, but he did not and at some point pulled a hammer out of a pocket and went at the officers, Camden said.
Officers hit the man with a Taser, but he continued to be combative. At least one officer began shooting, striking the man several times, and grazing the officer once, Camden said.
The man with the hammer died on the scene, and his body remained in the middle of 79th Street, surrounded by numerous shell casings and red police tape street as officers investigated about 2 a.m.
The officer was driven to Advocate Trinity Hospital by another police officer, according to police, and the weapons used in the attack were located at the scene.
The man who was stabbed was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment, but his condition was not immediately available.
The officer is a woman in her late 20s or early 30s. She was shot in the leg and taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital for treatment, where she was treated and released.
The police department's office of news affairs released a statement saying the man stabbed was in serious condition.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was briefly at the scene, and declined to speak to reporters at Trinity.
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