An off-duty Robbins police officer shot and killed Joshua D. Jones in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood after Jones tried to rob him early Friday morning, according to Chicago Police.
“An out-of-jurisdiction officer was in Chicago and was involved in some kind of altercation,” Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun-Times.
The shooting occurred about 6:50 a.m. in the 12300 block of South Wallace, near Metcalfe Community Academy, where counseling was being offered to students.
A person approached the officer and pulled a gun, according to a police source. The robber took the officer's keys and tried to get into the officer's car when he was shot. Police said the man's weapon was recovered at the scene,
Jones, 20, was pronounced dead at the scene, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived just a block away in the of the 12200 block of South Lowe.
The off-duty officer, a member of the Robbins Police Department, was not injured.
--Chicago Sun-Times Wire