CHINATOWN — A state police trooper shot at a car suspected of being stolen Saturday evening, leaving a boy wounded, and leading police on a chase that ended in the South Loop, police said.
At 6:50 p.m., the trooper spotted a car that had been reported stolen at gunpoint earlier that day, according to a statement from state police.
Troopers followed the car to the Dan Ryan Expressway on-ramp at Cermak Road in Chinatown, where they approached the vehicle and tried to take the occupants into custody, police said.
The driver then tried to run over a trooper, police said. The trooper shot at the car, "fearing for his life," according to the statement.
The chase continued until the 1100 block of South Wabash Avenue in the South Loop, where four people jumped out of the car and tried to run away, police said.
Three of them were immediately taken into custody, police said.
The fourth, a "juvenile" whose age was not provided, was later found at Stroger Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds that "do not appear to be life-threatening," according to the statement.
Two guns were recovered from the scene, police said.
On July 28, a Chicago Police officer fatally shot 18-year-old Paul O'Neal, who was suspected of driving a stolen Jaguar.
A video of the incident showed officers shooting at O'Neal's moving car after it crashed into a police squad car. After watching videos of the shooting, Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said they showed "potential policy and training violations."
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