Posted on 04/25/2010 3:56:27 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Man Dies After Gun Battle With Police
Updated 9:17 AM CDT, Sun, Apr 25, 2010
Chicago police activity
An 18-year-old man who opened fire on police has died from the gunshot wounds he sustained during the gun battle, according to a police statement.
Chicago Police say they shot Izael Jackson, of the 5300 block of South King Drive, after he jumped out of a vehicle and opened fire on officers following a traffic stop Saturday night.
Mobile Strike Force officers attempted to stop a car around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in the Woodlawn neighborhood, near East 61st Street and South Prairie Avenue. A passenger in that car hopped out and started shooting at the officers, and others who responded to help, according to a police statement.
Officers returned fire and struck the gunman, who was taken into custody and transported to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Jackson was pronounced dead at the hospital around 1:45 a.m. Sunday.
Nobody else was injured, according to the release.
A weapon was recovered on the scene, police said.
Curtis Tarver, a spokesman for the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates all police-involved shootings, confirmed the shooting.
The IPRA and Calumet Area detectives are investigating.
Jackson had been due in court in June on unrelated weapons charges, Chicago Breaking News reported.
Chicago Police Using Military Style Rifles Produced by Rob Wildeboer on Wednesday, March 25, 2009
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=33037
Note to self... when going up against someone with an M4, don’t shoot holding pants up with one hand and gun sideways with the other.
Another POS bites the dust. Nice shootin’ Chicago PD, keep up the good work. Not enough of these gangbangers are killing each other as quickly as needed, so help pick up the pace. 1 more down, 50,000+ more to go. Of course, da Mayor, King Richard the II, will have a fit about guns, but his gun laws have never worked with criminals, so STFU, quit blowing your cork and crying for the cameras, and allow the cops to clean up the streets. It’s amazing how the crooks will react when the cops actually shoot back, and accurately, too.
Not that it particularly matters now, but one wonders what motivated the perp. That is, I wonder if he was carrying drugs, or had outstanding warrants, or maybe just an illegal firearm.
Of course, he might just have been a crazy moron who thought he could shoot it out with the police.
Either way, I'm just glad no police or bystanders were hurt. No sympathy for the perp, though. He made the decision to throw his life away, and it's no one else's fault the way things turned out.
Mobile Strike Force officers
War zone ???
“but one wonders what motivated the perp.”
The perp was already out on bond on a gun charge.
“Jackson had been due in court in June on unrelated weapons charges,”
Perp was alleged to have a .40 cal. Glock which he emptied shooting at the police.
D’oh! That’ll teach me not to read more closely!
Thanks for the info.
So the story has a happy ending, yes?
The good news is no innocent bystanders or cops were hit by any of the bullets fired. Thank God for small favors.
Yes 
I'll be impressed when they start using miniguns.
don’t bring a gun to a... gun fight
There is a perverse moral calculus in the mind of a worthless human being, which involves the self-recognition of his worthlessness.
Here’s how it goes.
“If I kill someone (a cop or an innocent citizen) and get away with it, I win big-time.”
“If I kill someone and get caught, prosecuted, and get off somehow, I win even bigger-time.”
“If I kill someone and get killed in the process, I still win, because I took a King with a Pawn.”
“If I try to kill someone and fail, but in the process get killed myself, well in that case I lose—but I haven’t lost much.”
The Chicago Sun-Slimes already is playing this up as a poor little child murdered by the cops. Barf.
Cops return gunfire, kill Hyde Park teen
April 26, 2010
BY CHERYL V. JACKSON Staff Reporter
Hyde Park High School athlete Izael Jackson was excited about the coming months that would see him attend prom, graduate and head for Edward Waters College, his mother said.
His prom suit was being made and she was preparing to buy him the Prada shoes he’d requested, Octavia Mitchell said.
But Saturday night, the 18-year old was gunned down by Chicago Police after he allegedly fired shots at officers in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood. When officers attempted a traffic stop about 10:30 p.m. near 61st Street and Prairie Avenue, Jackson, a passenger in a vehicle, began firing shots at officers and they returned fire, striking him, according to a police news statement. A weapon was recovered at the scene, police said.
Mitchell learned of her son’s death through an 8 a.m. phone call from one of his friends. After getting no confirmation of his death from police, she went to the hospital, where she was told her son’s body had already be taken to the morgue.
“I can’t say what happened. I know my boy wasn’t a bad boy,” she said. “Why do I find out my boy has been executed?”
But Jackson was fighting a gun case, his mother said. “He said, ‘Ma, I didn’t work this hard to get a felony on my record for something that I did not do,” she said. “We felt that the police probably put that gun on him.”
Amid scores of family members and friends who packed his home in the 5300 block of King Drive on Sunday night, she and other relatives raised doubts the neatness and health buff — a row of Jordans stood along his bedroom wall, jeans were neatly folded in drawers, and basketball and baseball trophies were displayed on a top shelf — would aim a gun at police.
He had a strong support system. Cousin Kelvin Smallwood, a former pro basketball player, put him in a basketball camp. Friend Andre Robinson, who was a star running back in high school, also was a role model.
Neighbor Jeannette Jones expressed shock at the news. She stressed it didn’t fit her impression of Jackson.
“No matter how many times I walked in with groceries and laundry, he would always come and help me with my bags,” she said. “...He was the kind of young man I would have wanted my daughter to date,” she said.
Contributing: Francine Knowles
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2200440,CST-NWS-policeshoot26.article#
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