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Chicago police offering $10,000 reward for information on suspect who shot officer
Published June 27, 2019
Chicago police are still searching for the gunman who shot and critically injured an off-duty officer Wednesday morning and are now offering a $10,000 reward for information on the suspect.
Wednesday night, Chicago police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi tweeted a photo of the dark, four-door Toyota Camry with tinted windows the shooter was reportedly driving. He said detectives were "working to trace its path of travel" using cameras around the city.
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Police won't release the name of the 25-year-old injured officer but say he was driving past an elementary school on the city's South Side at 1:38 a.m. when the suspect fired about 20 shots, striking him in the head at least once. The officer was with a woman at the time, but she was unhurt.
The officer underwent emergency surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center and was showing signs of improvement, police said Wednesday. In a press conference, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the officer was responding to stimuli and even gave hospital visitors a thumbs up.
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In Wednesday's presser, Johnson emotionally denounced gun violence, asking his city to "put the guns down."
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