COPA releases video of Chicago police officers firing at armed woman on Far South Side
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Newly released video shows the moments Chicago police officers fired shots at a woman who pulled a gun on them last month on the Far South Side.
Police have said officers responded to the 9900 block of South Ewing Avenue in the East Side neighborhood around 2:03 a.m. on Sept. 2 for a report of a person with a gun and saw a male and a female in the area. Police said the female pulled a gun and shot at the officers, who returned fire, but no one was hit.
Body camera video released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Wednesday shows officers approaching a woman to question her, repeatedly saying "come here" and "let me see your hands," before she pointed a gun at them.
The officers can then be seen running to take cover behind a parked car as two shots ring out. COPA said both officers fired their weapons, and the woman ran off. No one was injured.
A gun was recovered at the scene, but the woman has not been caught.
Police questioned a man she was with, and he was released without charges.