And Still, No CSI: Chicago

By Margaret Lyons in News on Oct 11, 2004 3:52PM

After that zero-zero day, it feels like there have been a whole bunch of crime stories. Hm. Criminals probably want to squeeze it all in before the holiday season starts.

An FBI agent was assaulted this weekend and shot her attacker. The 34-year-old off-duty agent was entering a building on the 5600 block of North Wayne Avenue in Edgewater around 12:15 p.m. According to reports, the offender grabbed the woman from behind, "said, 'This is a stickup,' and hit her on the side of the face with a small black gun." The two struggled, eventually falling down a flight of concrete stairs, and the attacker "punched and bit her as she lay on her back." The agent then shot the man in the shoulder—the Trib says that the agent pulled her gun from her own ankle holster, but the Sun-Times says it's not clear if the gun in play was the agent's or the offender's. Either way, the guy got shot in the shoulder and fled to his car after "mutter[ing] an obscenity." Yeah, we'd be muttering obscenities too if our attempted robbery had gone this far off-course. Also, if we were shot.

The man only made it two blocks before crashing his car into a coin laundry. He was taken to the hospital, but somehow, despite being shot and crashing a car, his injuries are not life-threatening. No charges have been filed yet, but our crime experts here at the Chicagoist law enforcement lab are guessing that that guy is in for a shitstorm of trouble.