South Side shootout involving police this week was started by suspects who were trying to fire on rival gang members when they were actually shooting at officers in an unmarked police car, prosecutors said Saturday.
The alleged gunman, Julian Davis, 22, of the 2200 block of West 51st Street, is charged with two counts of attempted murder and a count of aggravated discharge of a weapon. Cook County Judge Jackie Marie Portman ordered him held in lieu of $400,000 bond Saturday.
The man accused of driving the car Davis was in, Anthony Rollins, 25, of the 2200 block of West 50th Place, is charged with aggravated flight from police and a host of traffic offenses. He was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bond.
The men were caught following a short foot chase when the car they were in crashed after one of them fired at the unmarked car near 47th Street on Western Avenue about 4 a.m. Thursday and police returned fire.
No one was injured in the shootout, although the alleged shooter was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after the crash.
A woman who was in the car with the two men was released without being charged, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Anne Dwyer.
The officers were headed north on Western Avenue just after 4 a.m. Thursday when a tan Mercury pulled up next to them near 47th Street, said Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. The 22-year-old man then began firing shots at them, and the officers returned fire, Mirabelli said.
Both cars were hit in the exchange, prosecutors said.
The officers began chasing the Mercury north, and during the pursuit the shooter threw the gun he had been using out of the car, Mirabelli said.
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