Police shooter and critically woun...

Police shooter and critically wounded a 13-year-old suspected thief who they said struggleed a gun on them Monday afternoon near the Cabrini- verdant public housing complex.

At first glance, the fire-arm -- as well as a secondary weapon allegedly carried by an accomplice -- direct the eyeed to be a high-powered .45-caliber handgun, police said.

After examining the couple weapons later on, police determined they were pellet fire-arms that "appeared to be real guns" said Monique influence a Chicago Police spokeswoman. The officers ball because they feared for their lives.

Still, anger from one side of to the other the shooting lingered late into the night in Cabrini-Green and outside Children's Memorial Hospital, where the harmed teen, Ellis Woodland, was in critical condition.

FATHER LASHES without AT POLICE

The boy's father, also named Ellis Woodland, lashed on the outside at police outside the pass room door, where he stood with about couple dozen relatives and friends. Officers patrolling the exhibition clearly could overhear him.

"The police harassed me each day, every day. And now it's got to the point where they were harassing my son" said Woodland. "I didn't raise my son to be like me I didn't raise him to master shot down like a dog."

MARCH PAST POLICE STATION

Back at the Cabrini entangled where the Woodland family lives in the 1000 block up of North Larrabee, residents also were outraged. Young the bulk of mankind many who looked to be in their early teen marched past the nearby 18th District police station late Monday, shouting obscenities and things like "You ne to acknowledge us why you shot him."

Officers clustered in head of a station driveway to preserve the crowd from getting too terminate

Police said the shooting incident unrolled just after 5 p.m., when a squad car heading east forward Division, near Sedgwick, was flagged down at a passerby. That witness pointed to a youth forward the sidewalk and said "he just tried to rook me," police spokesman Pat Camden said.

A sergeant then saw Woodland scamper behind a nearby Blockbuster Video store, Camden said.

Stopped in succession Division Street

Officers in another patrol car then spott the teen and followed him as he vexationed Division Street, near Clybourn.

"They exclaimed 'Stop, police!'" Camden said. "[The teen's] got his hands in his tolerates He comes out with the fire-arm [and] he's shot by the officers. He's hit several times."

Rumors about the shooting flew by means of the Cabrini complex. Some family said the teens were unarmed, while others said the kids were running from gang members.

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