78-year-old retired cop shoots at carjackers who crash a car and run away … 300 block of N Mayfield on May 24, 2023 at approx. 1:45 am … A male victim, 78 observed a neighbor getting car jacked when he attempted to intervene at which time the unknown male offender began shooting and the victim and fled in a vehicle northbound.
The victim is a retired CPD officer who did exchange gunfire with the offender.The victim sustained a graze wound to the left thumb and was transported to a local area hospital in good condition.
Victim #2 a male, 52 was not injured and no one is in custody at this time. Area four detectives continue to investigate.
UPDATE: The offender crashed the victims black Jeep into a parked vehicle in the 600 block of N Waller and fled the scene.
A weapon was recovered at the original scene of the shooting.
Area detectives continue their investigation at this time and no further updates are available.
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Shootout between retired Chicago police officer, carjacking suspect on West Side caught on camera … criminal got away crashed car a few blocks down the street
By Diane Pathieu WLS
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CHICAGO (WLS) — A retired Chicago police officer shared surveillance video of a wild shootout he got into while trying to help a neighbor who was being carjacked in the South Austin neighborhood.
The retired officer was back home and OK Wednesday morning, as is the carjacking victim, who was just trying to go to work.
They described a shootout and they both realized things could have ended very differently.
“I grabbed my gun ran outside and positioned myself behind a tree,” the retired officer said. “At that point it was going to be me or him.”
This shootout happened at 1:45 a.m. in the 300 block of north
Surveillance video captured a retired Chicago police officer get in a shootout with someone who he said was trying to carjack his neighbor.
It all started when one neighbor, a retired Chicago police officer of 30 years, said he heard the car alarm of his neighbor across the street going off. He realized the neighbor was being carjacked.
“When I looked up, he was at his wife’s car with his hands up and I noticed the gentleman had a gun on him,” the retired officer, who wants to conceal his name, said.
The victim saw the 72-year-old retired officer trying to help and both of them braced themselves for what happened next.
“They shot up my car in the driveway,” he said. “Shot part of the house.”
The retired police officer fired 12 rounds and heard the suspect fire at least 16 back at him.
Bullets hit the fence and one even grazed his left thumb, which is now bandaged up.
He believes the suspect was hit too, but managed to drive off northbound – he crashed the stolen Jeep into several parked cars in the 600-block of North Waller Avenue then took off on foot.
This whole incident is a reminder to both the retired officer and the carjacking victim, that although this is a tight knit neighborhood with residents watching out for each other, anything can happen.
“They are not scared to shoot now,” the retired officer said. “It’s awful to shoot at somebody that many times.”
Police said no one is in custody while they continue to investigate. The retired officer said he saved two bullets in his gun just in case there were other suspects he needed to protect himself from.
