Posted on 06/06/2022 8:25:07 AM PDT by rktman
An Illinois police officer fatally shot a man Thursday after the suspect arrived at a traffic stop involving another motorist and charged the officer with a hatchet, police said.
The fatal shooting happened in Naperville, some 33 miles west of Chicago, at around 11:00 a.m., the Naperville Police Department (NPD) announced in a press release. Police said preliminary information indicated that while a 22-year veteran of the police force was conducting a traffic stop near McDowall Road and Bond Street, “an unrelated vehicle” arrived at the scene and parked next to the car that was pulled over.
A white male suspect “quickly” hopped out of the vehicle “and charged at the officer” while wielding a hatchet, NPD Chief Jason Arres said at a brief press conference. The officer, who was not injured in the incident, then shot the suspect who was pronounced deceased after being conveyed to a local hospital, police said.
A still body camera image shared in the press release, seen below, shows the suspect with a hatchet in hand appearing to approach the officer. Authorities have not yet publicized the man’s identity, but the release disclosed he was in his 20s.
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I’m for Common Sense hatchet control Legislation...
“less able to subdue a man, naturally.”
Tossup here. He was more than a man, he was a man with a hatchet. And she may have been more than a woman, if she was, as she was a woman with a gun. No matter what the gender, don’t take a hatchet to a gun fight.
wy69
Jason is the name of the NPD chief. Not the officer involved in the shooting.
Freegards
If only there was a teacher there to disarm him.
That’s one way to get out of a ticket.
I heard it was a pregnant man who was unarmed.
In before Indiana Jones.
lol I keep thinking of that clip in Raiders of the lost Ark where Harrison Ford shoots the machete wielding local.
great minds think alike
COMMON SENSE hatchet control NOW!!!!
The suspect was white so nobody cares.
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