Police fired on a 19-year-old man who pointed a gun at officers during a South Side chase Saturday night, grazing the man in the elbow, authorities said.
About 10 p.m. Saturday, police were alerted to a man with a gun near the intersection of East 76th Street and South Luella Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood, authorities said.
The man was part of a group of three people who appeared intent on robbing a pizza delivery driver, a police source said. The driver drove off and was not injured.
When officers arrived, they spotted three people walking down 76th Street and stopped the three for questioning, according to Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of the Police.
One of the three, a 19-year-old man, took off running southbound, into an alley west of Luella, Camden said.
A police car followed the man, and halfway down the alley he slipped and fell with a gun in his hand, Camden said.
"As he gets up, he turns," Camden said. "He points the gun at the officers."
Police fired at the man, and a bullet grazed him in the elbow, Camden said. The man continued running through a vacant lot and jumped a fence with police close behind, Camden said. The man was taken into custody soon after, he said.
The man was treated and released from Jackson Park Hospital.
Police recovered a .357 caliber chrome revolver from the scene, Camden said. It was not immediately clear whether the two people the man was with were taken into custody as well.
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