Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Update: Suspect Who Pointed Gun at Police Last Week Charged

An update to a hot topic last week:
A man who police shot at because he pointed a weapon at officers March 22nd
in the South Loop neighborhood near a popular restaurant where Mayor Richard M.
Daley is said to be a regular has been charged.

Giovanni Smith, 25, of the 2300 block of South Canal Street, was charged
with felony aggravated assault of a police officer and unlawful use of a weapon
according to police. The felony charges were approved Saturday at
1:30am.

For the back story check our post from last week.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

40 shootings (reported) since Thursday morning on the south side of chicago. Just watched the disturbing story on ABC7.

Anonymous said...

FYI Sloopers: per the Sun-Times, another one of our stellar neighbors from the Pacific Garden Mission was arrested sunday for breaking into a vehicle on the 2400 block of south michigan ave.