Police fatally shoot man in car stopped on Broadway Street in Blue Island

Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune
Updated ·1 min read
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A police officer fatally shot a man in the driver’s seat of a car Thursday morning in Blue Island, according to a statement from the Police Department.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the man Thursday as William Burruss, 21, of the 20200 block Augusta Drive, Olympia Fields.

At 1:35 a.m., police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle and well-being check in the 2000 block of Broadway Street. The caller informed police the drivers-side door was ajar and the man was unresponsive in the driver’s seat, police said.

When officers arrived, police said they saw an AR-15 on the front passenger seat and, when they woke the man, he reached for the passenger seat.

An officer fired one round, shooting the man in the torso area, according to the statement.

He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The Illinois State Police crime scene services unit responded to process evidence. The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force is investigating the shooting, according to the statement.