Investigators were questioning at least one person in connection with the theft of a 9 mm Baretta belonging to a Chicago police officer as he lay critically injured in a traffic crash Wednesday at 98th and Halsted Streets, authorities said this afternoon. Officer JoAnn Taylor, a police spokeswoman, said at 2 p.m. that no charges have been filed in the case. Officer Densey Cole II was unconscious in his police SUV after the accident, officials said, happened about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday. Four other people also were hurt in the crash. “Whoever would prey on a wounded officer, incapacitated, take his weapon and then roll him around with a spinal injury to try and steal his wallet, is reprehensible,” Police Supt. Jody Weis said Thursday. Weis said police were examining cell phone video taken at the scene to see if it could help in their investigation. The officer, who was responding to a call when the crash happened, was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, said Quention Curtis, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department. An older man and woman also were taken to Advocate Christ, and two teenagers were taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. At the same summit on street gangs held at a downtown hotel where Weis spoke to reporters, Mayor Richard Daley said it was “appalling” that someone moved a seriously injured police officer to steal his weapon and rob him after his SUV crashed. “For someone to take advantage of someone’s injury and be able to steal their gun and rob them and move them around in a state of serious condition is appalling,” the mayor told reporters. — Staff report
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At least 1 questioned in theft of injured cop’s gun
