Off-duty Chicago police officer involved in shootout at Calumet Heights gas station

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventeen shots were fired by attackers during a shootout involving an off-duty Chicago Police officer early Tuesday in the South Side's Calumet Heights neighborhood.

Police said the officer was not hit, and no injuries were reported. 

Sources said the off-duty officer was pumping gas at a Shell station and Circle K store at the southeast corner of 95th Street and Stony Island Avenue around 4:15 a.m., when four men with guns jumped out of a white Nissan. The officer ran, but the suspects chased him, leading to a shootout. The officer fired once. The suspects fired 17 times before fleeing the scene. 

The gas station is in a strip mall near a busy entrance to the Bishop Ford Freeway. The gas station and a neighboring bank were cordoned off after the shooting.

Sources said the suspects' car was found ditched in the 5th (Calumet) Police District, at 727 E. 111th St., which is about two miles south and a mile west of where the shooting happened.

None of the businesses near the shootout scene would share surveillance video with CBS 2, but business representatives did say they have shared the surveillance video with police.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability was investigating, and asked anyone with information to call them at 312-746-3609. The officer involved has been placed on administrative duties, as is standard procedure in cases like these.