Man killed by police suspected in earlier fatal stabbing in same building: CPD
The knife-wielding man who was fatally shot by Chicago Police officers in a senior living facility early Monday is believed to have stabbed a person to death in the same building hours before he was shot, CPD officials said Tuesday.
CPD officers were called to the building in the 1400 block of East 75th Street around 2:50 a.m. Monday for a report of a man with a knife threatening residents, according to police.
Police said they went to the fifth-floor unit where the man lived in and tried to talk with him. The officers then used Tasers on the man, who had a knife, but the Taser shocks did not subdue him, according to police.
The man kept advancing with a knife before he was shot, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, though his identity was not released Tuesday. A knife was recovered at the scene.
Tuesday, CPD officials and the Cook County medical examiner's office said another man, 58-year-old Keith Harding, was found stabbed to death on the same floor of the building. CPD investigators have classified his death as a homicide, and the suspect is believed to be the man fatally shot by police.
A second police shooting also occurred early Monday in the Roseland neighborhood a few miles south. No fatalities were reported in that shooting, and CPD said the officers involved will be placed on desk duty for 30 days, in keeping with department policy, as the Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigates both cases.
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