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Police radio shields cop in West Side shooting

January 19, 2003
BY BECKY BEAUPRE STAFF REPORTER

A Chicago police officer was saved by his radio Saturday morning after a man opened fire in an alley, hitting the black plastic radio on his belt and leaving the officer with only minor injuries.

The Harrison District officer, whose name was not released, was bruised on the left side of his back after being grazed by bullet fragments, Chicago police spokesman Pat Camden said. He was treated at Mount Sinai Hospital and released.

The officer was responding to a narcotics complaint at 11:15 a.m. when he stepped out of his car in an alley in the 2800 block of West Wilcox. A man in a nearby gangway fired four or five shots at the officer, Camden said. Three shots hit the officer's squad car and one hit the radio.

The suspect ran south through the gangway toward Wilcox. Police were still searching for him Saturday afternoon.

The officer has been on the force since 1994, Camden said.

The last fatal shooting of a Chicago officer was in March, when Donald J. Marquez was gunned down while trying to arrest a 77-year-old man wanted in Housing Court.

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