CHICAGO — An Englewood District police captain who was shot in his face, shoulder and arm while trying to arrest a wanted man from Indiana Tuesday was "doing much better" Wednesday morning, police said.
The 58-year-old officer, who has been on the force for 29 years, was listed in good condition, said Officer Janel Sedevic, a police spokeswoman.
The shooting occurred around 5:30 p.m. in the 7200 block of South Lowe Avenue in Englewood when officers were trying to arrest a man wanted for multiple shootings in Indiana.
CPD scanner: "Officer down ... They're still shooting at police."
After officers arrived, someone began shooting from a window in the building, police said.
"He decided to lead from the front," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday in praising the captain for his "incredible sense of professionalism" and "selfless courage."
One of the bullets hit the captain above his eyebrow and exited around his temple, said police, who described the injury as a graze wound.
Emanuel added that he visited the captain at his hospital bedside overnight.
"He had an incredible sense of humor," Emanuel said, "given where he was, what had happened."
Emanuel said he recommended the captain try his hand at Second City's open-mic night, adding that he was also impressed by the presence of the officer's off-duty colleagues to check on him at the hospital, as well as the captain's family.
"Our thoughts are with him for a speedy recovery," Emanuel said, as well as with his family.
Around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, officers took into custody the man who had been wanted for the Indiana shootings, police said. Another man was pronounced dead at the scene, Sedevic said.
The wanted man now will have to appear in Cook County court for the shooting before he can be extradited to Indiana, police said.
The wanted man is believed to be Daniel Brown, 42, according to the Tribune.
As of 9 a.m., the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office had been notified of the other man's death but refused to give any more information.
Louis Davis, 61, has lived on the block for five years. He said the deceased man was Daniel Jackson, whom everyone called "Domino."
Jackson had a tumultuous relationship with the woman who lived in the apartment Brown was in, believed to be Brown's sister, Davis said.
She filed for several orders of protection against the man but then would allow him back in the apartment, he said.
Despite the problematic relationship, Jackson was "a good guy," Davis said.
"It's just a sad day," he said.
Koryell Tate, 29, and his family was in the middle of all the mayhem in their home next to the apartment complex.
"It was kind of crazy, frightening and unexpected. I've never seen anything like that in my life. I've never seen that many police at one scene," Tate said.
"They were all up on the railroads. They were in the trees. There were officers running through the streets and alley with their guns out," he said.
Officers told the family to stay inside their home and that there was an armed and dangerous man on the loose. The family stayed in the home, where they've lived for only two months, Tate said.
Eventually they heard two shots and jumped to the ground as Tate covered his three kids, he said.
"I told them 'Everything is going to be OK' even though we didn't know everything that was going on," he said.
Dispatcher: "They're still shooting out of the window."
The police captain is heavily decorated veteran, with 146 departmental awards and seven department commendations received during his career, police said.
"The most important thing is that he's in great spirits, he's surrounded by his family and he's going to be OK," Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said late Tuesday as the officer recovered from his injuries at Stroger Hospital.
The wounded officer was in "good spirits" and won't need surgery, McCarthy said.
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