Authorities charged a 29-year-old man with aggravated assault after he was shot by police Saturday evening during a raid in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
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Jessie White, of the 700 block of South Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb, was charged with a felony count of aggravated assault to a peace officer and a felony count of aggravated unlawful use of a loaded weapon without an FOID card, according to a new release from the Chicago Police Department.
Organized crime units were targeting an unlicensed auto repair and car wash that was a “suspected gun house” in the first block of North Kilpatrick Avenue when the shooting took place around 9 p.m., according to police. Police confiscated five weapons from the business in question, including a TEC-9, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
Police officers arrived at the business about 9 p.m. Saturday and saw people outside the business, according to a police news release. The officers announced they were police and went into the business. Inside, they saw White, who matched the description they had received of a suspect.
When he saw them, White allegedly “fled, hid behind a car and subsequently popped up with a handgun, which he pointed at the officers,” Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy said. The “officer, in fear of his life, discharged his weapon, striking the offender.”
White was shot in the arm and leg taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized.
No officers were injured, and the officer or officers involved will be put on routine administrative duties for a period of 30 days, according to a news release.
White is scheduled to appear in Cook County bond court Tuesday.