The Latest: Wounded Chicago officer released from hospital
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Latest on the shooting of a Chicago police officer and suspect during an altercation (all times local):
12:10 p.m.
Authorities say a police officer who was shot in the leg by a suspect on Chicago's South Side has been released from the hospital.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Cook County medical examiner on Friday identified the suspect as 50-year-old Derek Love, who was killed in the exchange of gunfire Thursday evening.
Police say the wounded officer and his partner were on bike patrol when a person told them about a man acting "erratically." The officers approached the man to ask him to end his cellphone call and speak with them when the man pulled out a gun and opened fire. Police say both officers returned fire, killing the suspect.
Authorities have not released the identities of the officers involved. A Chicago police spokesman says they will be on 30-day administrative duty.
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12:50 a.m.
Chicago police say an officer is expected to survive after being shot in the leg by a man who was killed when officers returned fire.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson told reporters late Thursday that the officer and his partner were on bike patrol on the near South Side Thursday night when a person told them about a man acting "erratically."
The officers approached a man talking on a cellphone and asked to speak with him. Johnson says the man pulled a gun out of a backpack and opened fire. He says both officers returned fire, killing the suspect.
One officer was struck in the thigh. He was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Johnson said the incident was "another example of too many guns" and "too many people willing to use them."