Sept. 27--A man was fatally wounded Friday night in a police-involved shooting in the city's Humboldt Park neighborhood.
The shooting happened about 9 p.m. in the 900 block of North Central Park Avenue, said police spokeswoman Officer Nicole Trainor, citing preliminary information. The man later died, according to a spokesman for the Independent Police Review Authority.
A spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department said a man was taken in serious to critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital from the Central Park location.
The man was identified as James Anderson, 33, of the same block where he was shot. Although a police statement released at 11 p.m. Friday did not refer to the man having died, he was pronounced dead at 9:33 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Anthony Guglielmi, director of police News Affairs, said officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a residence where they encountered a group of adults. A man in the group was holding a "knifelike object in his hand," Guglielmi said.
The officers ordered him to drop it, but he didn't comply, Guglielmi said. The man then "engaged" the officers, he said.
One officer twice tried to use a Taser on the man, Guglielmi said, but the device's prongs didn't reach him. The officers again ordered the man to drop the object. When he did not, one of the officers fired at least one round, striking the man.
Guglielmi said a "box cutter-like" object was found at the scene. No officers were injured, he said.
The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the case, as it does with all police-involved shootings.
