Person killed in shooting involving FBI in Dixmoor, Illinois
One person was killed in an FBI agent-involved shooting on Wednesday morning in Dixmoor, Illinois.
The FBI confirmed agents were in the area of 145th Street and Cooper avenue to serve a federal warrant, when an agent was involved in a shooting.
One person was killed, but no agents were injured. Family identified the man who was killed as 22-year-old Chadwick Clark Jr. His mother said he was one of seven children.
The FBI did not provide any further details on the incident.
It was not certain whether the person who was shot was the target of the federal warrant.
One woman who lives on the block where the shooting occurred said she and her husband woke up to two loud bangs around 6 a.m., and said she could hear FBI agents making their announcements and banging on the door of the house where they were serving the warrant.
She said an hour passed after that until she heard about six gunshots fired. After that, she said she saw FBI agents taking someone out of the house, and that person was put on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance.
"We heard another agent say call the ambulance," Ruth Perkins said. "So the guy never stepped out on the porch. He was in the house when they shot him, because we seen the agents bring him down the stairs and lay him on the ground. They was working on him. They called the paramedics, the paramedics came, and they were working on him for a few minutes. They put him in the back and they drove off with him."
Family members were also seen standing around outside the home after the shooting.
Perkins said she also saw six people being taken outside. She said those six people were initially handcuffed, but those handcuffs were later removed.
Dixmoor police said the FBI notified them of the effort to serve a warrant at the home, so officers helped the FBI set up a perimeter, but police said they were not involved with actually serving the warrant.
The Cook County Sheriff is also assisting with the investigation, but declined further comment.
The FBI Inspection Division was investigating the incident.
This was the second deadly shooting involving the FBI in the Chicago area this week. On Monday, Oscar D. Isaya-Corrales, 27, was shot and killed during a confrontation with an FBI agent in the 1700 block of South Union Avenue under the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
The FBI said the agent was on his way home in a Bureau-issued car when he spotted the man firing at least two shots into a group of innocent people. They said the agent, in an attempt to stop the ongoing threat, engaged with the man, who was then shot and later died.
