CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man faces aggravated assault of a peace officer and weapons charges following a shootout with an off-duty sheriff’s officer at Chicago’s Millennium Park.
The man also was wounded in the Friday evening shooting, Chicago police said.
Police said the man jumped a fence into the park after refusing to be checked with a metal-detecting wand at an entrance. Shots were fired as he was approached by the Cook County sheriff’s officer who was working as a security guard at the park.
The man later was arrested.
The shooting follows the fatal shooting May 14 of a 16-year-old boy near “The Bean” sculpture in the downtown park that is popular with tourists. The city later instituted a curfew banning minors not accompanied by an adult during some evening hours from the park.
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