LOGAN SQUARE — A man was shot by police Friday after he allegedly led them on a brief car chase before driving towards an officer, according a police union spokesman.
About 5:15 p.m., police responded to a call of someone using narcotics in an alleyway in the 2800 block of North Harding Avenue, police said in a statement.
Police found the driver using narcotics inside the car and tried to take him into custody but he refused to leave his car, according to the statement.
The driver of the car was ignoring another driver's request to move, said Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, citing preliminary information. When police arrived, the driver of the car continued to ignore requests by officers to move get out of his car or remove it from the alleyway.
Officers attempted to break a window of the man's car to move it, but the man began driving away, hitting both a squad car and another car in the alleyway, Camden said.
Police pursued the driver and blocked his car in on North Pulaski Road near West Diversey Avenue. The driver continued to ignore police commands to get out of his car and was "revving the engine," Camden said.
"He was going back and forth trying to get through a little opening between cars," Camden said.
Officers tried approaching the car on foot, and the driver accelerated his car towards one officer, causing the officer to shoot, Camden said.
When police tried to remove the man from his car, he began fighting the officers and had to be subdued with a Taser, Camden said.
The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in serious condition where he was treated for his wounds, Camden said. No officers were injured during the incident.
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