{"id":535167,"date":"2010-04-20T07:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/one-held-after-mercedes-strikes-cop-citizen"},"modified":"2010-04-22T22:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T02:54:49","slug":"one-held-after-mercedes-strikes-cop-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535167","title":{"rendered":"One held after Mercedes strikes cop, citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (CBS\/CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) \u2015<\/strong> A Chicago Police officer is hospitalized serious condition after a car struck the officer and a person he was interviewing in the Rush-Division nightlife district — prompting police to fire shots at the suspect. \u00a0 The suspect fled, but was apprehended early Tuesday in the incident.<\/p>\n

The incident began about 3:10 a.m. when a Mercedes was driving past 10 W. Elm St., where a police officer was conducting a traffic stop and either searching or interviewing a citizen outside, according to a police.<\/p>\n

The Mercedes then struck the officer — and the person the officer was searching — and is believed to have dragged one of the two for a short distance. <\/span>This prompted the officer’s partner to fire shots at the car, according to police.<\/p>\n

The injured officer was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious condition, according to police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines.<\/p>\n

No one was hit by the police gunfire, Gaines said.<\/p>\n

The Mercedes fled the scene northbound but the suspect who was driving it — and who police were shooting at — was eventually apprehended at Division and Dearborn streets.<\/p>\n

Fire Media Affairs Chief Kevin MacGregor said crews responded, and one person has been transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n

MacGregor could not say what condition the person was in and he did not know if the injured person was a police officer.<\/p>\n

MacGregor said there was another ambulance called to an address nearby but they did not transport a second person anyone.<\/p>\n

Two pre-war luxury apartment high-rises are located on the block of Elm Street where the original incident happened. On the ground floors of the high-rises — Elm Street Liquors at 10 W. Elm St. and the Hangge-Uppe at 14 W. Elm St. The Hangge-Uppe is open until 4 a.m.<\/p>\n

A person who answered the phone at the Hangge-Uppe said the staff at the nightclub “can’t talk about it” about 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

As of about 4:15 a.m., police had set up a crime scene and blocked off Division Street from Clark Street east to State Street. Crime scene tape also blocked off Elm Street, from near the front door of the Hangge-Uppe east to the intersection with State Street.<\/p>\n

There was also a crime scene set up at Clark Street and LaSalle Drive about half a mile north, but it is not known whether this was related to the incident or for something else altogether.<\/p>\n

(\u00a9 MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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CHICAGO (CBS\/CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) \u2015 A Chicago Police officer is hospitalized serious condition after a car struck the officer and a person he was interviewing in the Rush-Division nightlife district — prompting police to fire shots at the suspect. \u00a0 The suspect fled, but was apprehended early Tuesday in the incident. The incident began about 3:10 a.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}