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CHICAGO (AP) — One person was shot and a Chicago police officer was wounded Monday during an incident inside a police facility on the city’s West Side, officials said.
Shots were
fired shortly before noon at the building in Homan Square, police spokesman Tom
Ahern told WGN-TV.
The officer
was taken to Sinai Hospital in stable condition, according to the Chicago Fire
Department. He was not shot.
The other
person was taken to another hospital in critical condition with at least one
gunshot wound.
The West
Side police facility is in a large red brick building that houses evidence and
recovered property on the first floor. Some of the police department’s
specialized units also work out of the building.
Early Monday
afternoon, crime scene tape was stretched across South Homan Avenue a block
south of the police station and across the same street just north of the
building.
A nearby
school was placed on lockdown.
Police were
expected to release more details at an afternoon news briefing.