SWAT team responds to report of man with gun in South Shore

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
SWAT team called to South Shore
Chicago police and a SWAT team responded Tuesday morning to a report of a man in a vehicle with a gun in the city's South Shore neighborhood.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Charges are pending against a 35-year-old man who police found with a gun on Chicago's Southeast Side.

Officers were called to the 7500-block of South South Chicago Avenue for a report of a man with a weapon slumped over the wheel of a vehicle. When they arrived, police found him sleeping in the car.

A SWAT team was called in to assist, but police were able to coax the man out of the vehicle with his hands up. He was handcuffed and led into a squad without incident. A gun was recovered at the scene.

There were no reports of injuries.