CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Chicago police said a suspect is expected to survive after being shot by police Thursday during a tense drama on the Eisenhower Expressway during the afternoon rush period.
The suspect was wanted in last weekend’s murder of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams, who had been with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru on the West Side.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said police had been surveilling the suspect Thursday afternoon in a western suburb when he entered a vehicle around 4 p.m. and tried to escape. Police chased the suspect onto the inbound Eisenhower Expressway.
Supt. Brown said police shot the suspect multiple times after he crashed and tried to carjack someone on inbound I-290 near Mannheim Road.
"Officers confronted the suspect. The suspect was struck multiple times by the officers' weapons that they fired," Supt. Brown said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the suspect fired back, Supt. Brown said, but two firearms were recovered from the suspect.
The suspect was taken to an area hospital and is expected to live. No officers were hurt.
Supt. Brown said "there were other people involved" in the incident, but that no one else was arrested.
As is standard any time an officer fires his or her weapon, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability will investigate.
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On Sunday, 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams was killed and her father seriously wounded when someone fired into the vehicle they were in at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Homan Square.
Jaslyn was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital. Her father, Jontae Adams, was treated for a gunshot wound to his torso, police said.
Police said the shooting was gang-related and was believed to be tied to another shooting less than three hours later that wounded two people at a Popeyes in Humboldt Park.
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