Man displayed gun at Walgreens, fled on tracks, Chicago IL
WeaponsA man at a Walgreens near Broadway displayed a gun at the cashier and fled north on Broadway. Police spotted him on the Granville Red Line platform where he ran onto the train tracks, discarded the firearm, and escaped eastbound through an alley. Officers recovered the weapon after shutting down the tracks. The suspect is described as a male about 30 years old wearing camouflage pants, a green tank top, a vest, and a backpack.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 11
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Transcript:
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33. He's going to a person with a gun at the Walgreens. Well, now he's going northbound on Broadway from the Walgreens.
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near Broadway.
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He had on a green tank top and army pants, black backpack, northbound Broadway.
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I'm going to sound like a citywide unit to 24th district person with a gun near Broadway that was at a Walgreens a mail was in this walked out of the store he knocked down the window flashed the gun at the cashier it's male (description withheld) with army pants green tank top black backpack northbound Broadway 24th Districts 11th
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2411. And 2412 for the backup.
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C412. Can you guys write on a trespass in progress, 6,800 Northwestern at the library, 6,800 Western.
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Jason from that place called, says Jim Tillman, a homeless (description withheld), 60 to 70 glasses, blue, white flannel shirt, and a jeans, is trespass, and refusing to leave.
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Call out his reports against him for a battery and trespass.
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Hi-night. Hi-Nine. Okay.
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2420?
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That person would be gone on the box. I'm going that way.
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Okay.
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2460. Is the SDS you have that guy of hot at all?
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2402 C. 2402, same?
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2402 Sam.
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2402 Sam.
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2402 Sam. All right, 6 seconds.
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Yeah,
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do you guys have anything?
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Any camera footage, near Broadway?
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The Walgarians over there.
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Not that far south, but I'm looking southbound from Granville. I haven't seen anybody walking northbound with that description at this time.
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All right, 2460, you copy.
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I copy, thank you squad.
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433. I came down Granville. He didn't go down to Granville.
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433 came down Granville and the subject did not go down at Granville.
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433 didn't see him.
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10, can you turn my bike, please?
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Who else is looking for that one?
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2410.
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Okay.
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24.6. You show me over here as well, please.
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2406, all right?
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The guy is approximately 30 years old, it's traveling northbound on Broadway. He's got a vest on,
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curly hair, male (description withheld).
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Okay, 10-4[1]. For anyone responding to this person with the gun call, near Broadway.
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A male (description withheld) curly here wearing a vest, about 30 years old. He's moving northbound on Broadway.
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Yeah, when you gave that call on, I was at Sheridan and Granville. I came down Granville. I didn't see him unless the call took too long to get out, then maybe got on the red line, but I came straight down Granville to Broadway. Did not see him.
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Okay.
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Does the SSU room have anything?
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They did not?
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So if you see, I'll back it up and see if I can see him prior to.
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Additionally, the camera at Thorndale and Broadway is currently down,
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so I don't know if he went south at some point or not.
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All right, thanks.
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2406.
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2406.
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2406.
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You said something about a vest, we're wearing camo pants, they said?
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Yeah, camel pants, green cap, and also a black backpack. But he also mentioned a vest.
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I got him on the platform at Granville.
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He's on the Granville platform, 10-4[1], 24-202, Sam.
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They should be bona fide. They were animated about that they see what you're on.
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The same thing is stop the train. There's a lot of people I feel about myself.
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These are going to run away from me on the tracks.
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You know what I'm looking for them. I'm trying to show a roll it.
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He's running a citywide, we got a person with a gun.
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2406 got him in sight.
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He's running, now he's running southbound on the red line tracks of the Granville red line, male (description withheld), camouflage, army pants, green tank top, running southbound on the L, on the tracks.
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406, Sam's got him on view. He hopped off the tracks.
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He's hopping off the tracks.
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He's going to go eastbound.
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He's in the alley right now.
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Eastbound in the alley, where did he jump off, 06?
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Right at Granville, just south of Granville, he jumped off, I have no eyes. I'm not jumping that far.
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Jumped off southbound, right by Granville, he went eastbound in the alley.
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He jumped off male (description withheld),
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camels, green, well, he's got a vest and a backpack. He's cautioned. He did have a gun.
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Yeah, I got pointing incident too. I don't know it doesn't matter, but...
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Okay, well, we put that down there.
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24-06 pointing incident.
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And are you off the track, search?
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Yeah, I can hop it down there, airborne yesterday.
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Okay, nobody else on the tracks. All right. All right, uh, he went, he jumped off, just, uh...
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He went eastbound.
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I'm there.
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4-6 Adam, you're going over there, Ray?
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Do anybody got him in sight? When he ran away from me, I thought I saw him throw the pistol on the tracks, so I'm going to try and grab that.
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Once the train pulls away, I'll let you know.
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Sorry,
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should I shut, could I come back?
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Yeah,
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give me a second. Let me see if I could get a visual on it. It didn't look like he threw it all the way off or it's like more down on the tracks.
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Okay, 10-4[1].
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Let me know if you're going to start going on over...
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433. I went through a gangway, 5140,
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but we did not see him come through this way.
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All right, 104. 402, Sam, you catch any video?
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402. Sam, I saw them briefly up on the platform.
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I'm currently looking toward Dorndale at this point.
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24-06. I got a visual on the gun.
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All right. Three-six.
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Can you go?
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Go ahead.
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Yeah, we'll shut down the tracks. All right, all you just stand by before you go.
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We're going to shut down the tracks. We'll get back to you a second. Don't go on you.
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In the CTA monitoring,
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406 has a visual on the gun that was thrown on the tracks. We're trying to shut the tracks down over there at the Granville Red Line, 24th District, going on the... Regardless the possible.
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Okay. Do we don't have a southbound after we eastbound? Does anyone know that?
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Somebody says that you have a concerned citizen that said he was last found southbound in the tracks.
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Excuse me, last southbound in the east alley of the tracks.
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All right, 1040. Did I hear somebody say he might have them detained or if possible?
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Near N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660
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