Officer Erik Moreno and two other uniformed officers tried to make a traffic stop in the 6900 block of South Sangamon Street when he was shot in the torso and arm and rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious-but-stable condition.
The attorney noted that Jermone Halsey who has a FOID card and a concealed carry license told Chicago police at the hospital afterward that he feared for his safety when the officers boxed him in an alley. To Halsey, it was “just an SUV of three people … following him into an alley, getting out of their car with weapons drawn.”
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He faces two counts of attempted murder after allegedly opening fire on officers during a traffic stop in the 6900 block of South Sangamon Street, police said.