Chicago police chased a robbery suspect from the River North neighborhood into the Bucktown neighborhood Friday night and shot him after he tried to run over an officer, according to authorities.
Police said the man shot is the same one wanted in more than a dozen robberies of North Side convenience stores and restaurants.
The robbery, chase and shooting unfolded about midnight, when a man robbed a Subway restaurant on State Street just north of Chicago Avenue.
Police working a robbery mission team pursued an SUV that matched the description of one fleeing the scene to the 6-corner intersection of North, Milwaukee and Damen avenues.
It was there that the man tried to run over police after backing into a squad car, the Chicago Police Department said in a statement released more than four hours after the shooting.
Police said the man did not respond to commands and made suspicious movements inside the vehicle before he was shot, and police recovered a "weapon" at the scene but didn't specify what type.
The man, whose age was not available, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
The other robberies police are investigating happened most often between 11:30 p.m. and 2:15 a.m. Among the pair: two within hours of each other at 2200 N. Lincoln Avenue and 300 W. Chicago Avenue early in the morning of Feb. 6.
Police from a number of nearby districts responded to the scene after officers called "10-1," a radio term used to signal an officer, firefighter or paramedic in distress. Detectives from two of the three city detective areas also responded to the scene.
Detectives approached people inside and out of the numerous bars that line the intersection asking if anyone saw anything.
Police blocked access to the area and the CTA rerouted its bus traffic around the intersection.
Hours after the shooting, as the bars wrapped up for the night, people stood outside smoking and exchanging stories of the cop cars they saw speeding toward the scene.
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