Police shoot and kill armed security guard
ROBBINS, Ill. November 12 2018
Multiple agencies responded to a report of a shooting at a suburban Chicago bar and authorities now say that a police officer shot and killed an armed security officer working there.
The Cook County sheriff’s office says officers responded shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday to a call of shots fired at Manny’s Blue Room in Robbins.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sophia Ansari says a police officer from nearby Village Midlothian shot a man later identified as 26-year-old Jemel Roberson.
Ansari says four other people had gunshot wounds, but their injuries weren’t considered life-threatening. She says at least one of them was believed to have fired shots during the shooting before police arrived.
Officers from Robbins and Midlothian were the first on the scene. Robbins police Chief Roy Wells told reporters Sunday the initial shooting stemmed from an argument.
“The security guard that got killed, had engaged one of the shooters and was holding a man at gunpoint and arriving police may have thought that he was one of the suspects in the shooting, a witness told local reporters.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that officers came upon a person with a gun and shot him dead. That person has been confirmed to be the security guard.
The Cook County sheriff’s office is conducting an investigation into the shooting of the security officer and said that there are questions about whether or not the security officer complied with officers and whether or not he was identifiable as a security guard.
