Hundreds of Police Respond to Officer Involved Shooting
Officer Nicholas Ardolino stated that on the day of this incident he and his three partners were on routine patrol in their unmarked blue Chicago Police Ford Explorer SUV. The officers were assigned to the Community Safety Team, and none were assigned body worn cameras.
On August 9, 2020, at approximately 2:46 p.m., Beat 6710A (Officers Matthew Marano, Nicholas Ardolino, Patrick Forbes, and Carlos Barona) were in an unmarked SUV. Officer Ardolino was driving when they responded to a 911 call of a male black subject with a gun, wearing a red shirt and hat, in Moran Park, at 5700 S. Racine Avenue. As they approached the park, driving north on Racine Avenue, they saw the suspect and two other
unidentified subjects walking north across 57th Street from the park. As the suspect and his two companions then walked east on the north side of 57th Street, Officer Ardolino maneuvered his police vehicle onto the north sidewalk and drove at the three men, narrowly missing one man and
causing the suspect and the third man to run to escape being hit.
The suspect ran north on May Street, then fled eastbound through a gangway. Officer Marano exited the vehicle and chased the suspect eastbound through multiple gangways.1 When they reached Aberdeen Street, one block to the east, Officer Marano saw the suspect pull a
firearm from his pants and called that information over OEMC. The suspect then fled through a vacant lot on the east side of Aberdeen Street. At the same time, Officer Ardolino had continued north in the police vehicle and parked in the vicinity of 56th Street and the alley between May Street and Aberdeen Street. Officer Ardolino then ran south on Aberdeen. Both officers cut through the same vacant lot as the suspect at approximately 5619 S. Aberdeen Street. As they reached the alley, the suspect who was further south in the alley, DISCHARGED HIS SEMI-AUTOMATIC HANDGUN SEVERAL TIMES AT THE TWO OFFICERS. OFFICERS ARDOLINO AND MARANO EACH FIRED BACK SEVERAL TIMES, STRIKING HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS FACE AND TO HIS LOWER LEFT FLANK. The suspect fell in a vacant lot on the north side of 5625 S Aberdeen Street, and a firearm, with fingerprints matching the suspect’s was later recovered from this spot. He ran west in the same vacant lot, eventually running in to the residence where he hid in the basement until he was discovered by the officers. The suspect was subsequently transported by ambulance to the hospital but his injuries were not fatal. None of the involved officers was
equipped with body-worn cameras because officers assigned to the Community Safety Team had not been issued body-worn cameras when this incident occurred.
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