ROBBINS, Ill. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a bar security guard by police officer (all times local):
12:50 p.m.
Authorities say charges are pending against a man involved in a shootout at a suburban Chicago bar that ended with a police officer fatally shooting an armed security guard.
Cook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said Monday that the man was among four people wounded in the early Sunday shooting at Manny's Blue Room in Robbins, just south of Chicago.
Investigators say the security guard, 26-year-old Jemel Roberson, was fatally shot by an officer from nearby Midlothian who responded to the shooting.
Adam Harris says he witnessed the shooting. He tells WGN-TV that the officer shot Roberson despite people "screaming" that he was a security guard.
Rev. Marvin Hunter says Roberson played the organ at his and other area churches. Hunter says Roberson was an "upstanding" man in the process of regaining custody of his son and earning enough money for a deposit on a new apartment.
Illinois State Police are investigating.
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5:50 a.m.
Authorities say a police officer who was responding to a shooting at a suburban Chicago bar fatally shot an armed security guard who was 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 an officer from nearby 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.
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