An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors mentioned he drove into Chicago law enforcement officials not as soon as, not twice, however three separate occasions, injuring 5 cops and knocking one in all them unconscious as they tried to disperse an enormous road gathering on the Close to West Facet early Sunday. When Rashad Johnson’s automotive lastly got here to a crashing halt, officers pulled him from the car and allegedly discovered a loaded Mac 10 pistol in his waistband.
In keeping with Assistant State’s Lawyer Michael Rausch, numerous CPD officers had been deployed close to Roosevelt Highway and South Loomis Road round 2:54 a.m. Sunday to disperse a crowd of a number of hundred folks. Officers lined the east aspect of Loomis and the south aspect of Roosevelt, Rausch mentioned, and the westbound lanes of Roosevelt had been blocked by marked squad automobiles with their lights activated.
Johnson was driving a Ford Fusion westbound on Roosevelt Highway with two passengers, each of whom prosecutors say later refused to cooperate with the investigation. As he approached the intersection, he veered into oncoming site visitors, and a squad automotive with its lights and sirens activated tried to cease him from persevering with, Rausch mentioned. Johnson allegedly slowed practically to a crawl, then accelerated and turned south onto Loomis, driving up onto the curb and putting the primary officer, who suffered leg, knee, hip, and again ache and a potential torn meniscus.
Johnson saved driving and struck a second officer, who suffered a laceration to the left elbow requiring stitches and ache to the fitting thigh, Rausch mentioned. He then crossed into the flawed lane and continued accelerating, putting three extra officers earlier than crashing right into a parked squad automotive after which a utility pole, the place his automotive got here to a cease, in keeping with Rausch.
Of the three officers struck in that remaining sequence, one was knocked unconscious and suffered a head wound requiring staples. One other sustained a concussion, whereas the third suffered lacerations and street rash to the elbow and again.
Officers eliminated Johnson from the car and located a loaded Mac 10 semiautomatic handgun with an prolonged journal in his entrance waistband, in keeping with the allegations.
Johnson, who has no prior prison background, is charged with 5 counts of first-degree homicide, aggravated possession of a weapon, and 5 counts of aggravated battery with a lethal weapon. Decide Ankur Srivastava granted the state’s detention submitting.
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