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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police exchanged gunfire with a suspect believed to be connected to the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl as she sat in a car with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru, authorities said.
Illinois State Police Trooper Kyle Barrett said the gunfire occurred on the Eisenhower Expressway, which runs west of Chicago’s Loop business district.
Police Superintendent David Brown said investigators observed the suspect get into a car & drive off. During his attempt to elude police, the suspect got on the eastbound Eisenhower Expressway near Bellwood & crashed. He then attempted to carjack a family traveling in the same direction on the expressway. That is when police confronted the suspect & an officer shot him several times, Brown said.
A later statement said the suspect, who wasn’t identified by police, was shot in the arm. His condition wasn’t immediately known. No officers were injured during the confrontation.
Representatives of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability confirmed Chicago police fired a weapon, & investigators from the office were on the scene.
Chicago police spokesman Tom Ahern said the suspect is wanted in the fatal shooting Sunday of Jaslyn Adams & the wounding of her father, Jontae Adams. Jaslyn was shot repeatedly and was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Her father, a rapper who goes by the name Tilla, was shot in the torso & taken to the same hospital & has since been released.
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