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At the beginning of the chase, an officer is heard saying over the radio that he had tried to stop the suspect but he took off running. "He took off, he was running from me, we just had a shooting the other day," the officer radioed.

He described the suspect as wearing a long black coat with a fur collar and last seen running south on Dearborn Street. Within a minute, another officer said he saw the man. He told a dispatcher he was near Clark and Lake streets, “State of Illinois building towards City Hall.”

It was the last thing heard from the officer. The dispatcher asked, repeatedly, over the course of more than three minutes for the officer to come back on the air. There was no response.

The first officer came back on the air and said, “Don’t anybody get hurt. We just wanted to do a street stop on him and he took off on me. But he was in the area where we’ve had a lot of narcotics sales and a shooting on Saturday.”

The dispatcher replied, "I understand, but somebody else is following him and we want to make sure we get him help.”

A different officer came on the air and said they found the suspect and had him in handcuffs. They said the suspect had a gun on him.

The original officer came back on the air reporting a person had been shot. “We have a person shot in the stairwell. Possibly related to the guy we were chasing at the State of Illinois building.”

The dispatcher said, “OK, is that an off-duty PO (police officer)?”

“There’s a radio laying (cq) next to him. Oh s---. Squad, I need somebody over here ASAP. It is.”

Dispatcher: “We have a 10-1, we have an off-duty shot. We have units on the scene.”

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Originally posted by Klusk2:
He went out of his way, which is almost all of the time, to thank us all about the job we were doing and how he truly appreciated all that we do.

He will be sorely missed. Prayers for his family.