Police fatally shoot driver on Broadway Street in Blue Island
A police officer fatally shot a person in the driver's seat of a car Thursday morning in Blue Island, according to a statement from the Police Depa...

A police officer fatally shot a person in the driver's seat of a car Thursday morning in Blue Island, according to a statement from the Police Department. At 1:35 a.m., police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle and well-being check in the 2000 block of Broadway Street. The caller informed police the drivers-side door was ajar and a male was unresponsive in the driver's seat, police said. When officers arrived, police said they saw an AR-15 on the front passenger seat and, when they woke the driver, he reached for the passenger seat.