COPA responding to officer-involved shooting in Back of the Yards

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is responding to an officer-involved shooting on the city's South Side on Friday evening.

COPA said the shooting happened in the Back of the Yards neighborhood's 1700-block of West 47th Street.



Officers fired shots, but no one was hit by gunfire, a COPA spokesperson said.

What led up to the shooting was not immediately clear.



COPA asked anyone with information to contact them at 312-746-3609.

Further information was not immediately available.

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