Thursday, October 18, 2007

Self-Defense in Chicago

It actually can happen.

A man who shot a threatening University of Chicago student in the chest Wednesday night acted in self defense and will not be charged, authorities said today.

The student, who was reported to be in critical condition, threatened to hit a fellow apartment-building dweller with a vodka bottle and kicked in the door of the man's Hyde Park apartment, police said.

The incident began about 7:30 p.m. as the student and shooter were riding together in an elevator of their apartment building in the 5400 block of South Cornell Avenue, Chicago Police Officer Laura Kubiak said.

I'm just surprised that even w/ the Illinois pre-emption on firearm self-defense law, that the CPD didn't try and charge him w/ something. Of course now he's lost the firearm.

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