CHICAGO – Charges were filed Monday against a man shot by an off-duty Chicago Police officer when he allegedly pointed a handgun at the officer after shooting at three men inside a sport-utility vehicle early Monday in the North Side West Ridge neighborhood, police said.
Emmanuel Perez-Gomez, 20, of the 4700 block of N. Kenneth Ave., was charged at 4 p.m. Monday with three counts of attempted murder, three counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm and misdemeanor aggravated assault, according to police.
Perez-Gomez was arrested at 4:37 a.m. Monday at Belmont Area headquarters at 2452 W. Belmont Ave. after he checked himself into Swedish Covenant Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound he suffered when a police officer shot him, police said.
The shooting happened about 1:10 a.m. Monday in the 2800 block of West Devon Avenue, police said.
A police report said the incident began as an argument, and Perez-Gomez allegedly pointed a loaded handgun at an Isuzu Rodeo SUV and fired three or four shots. Three men inside the Rodeo — all in their 20s with the same last name – were not hit, the report said.
An off-duty officer working security nearby chased Perez-Gomez, who pointed the same gun at the officer, the report said. In fear for his life and others, the officer fired and shot Perez-Gomez, who fled in a dark-colored SUV, the report said.
Initially, police said no one was struck but a man later arrived at Swedish Covenant Hospital and told emergency personnel he was shot near North Mozart Street and West Devon Avenue — about a block west of the police-involved shooting, police said. The injuries were described as non-life-threatening.
Belmont Area detectives and the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates all police-involved shootings, are investigating.
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