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Several males hiding in backyard, one armed with gunChicago IL

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Near S Essex Ave, Chicago, IL 60617

Officers responded to a report of several males wearing dark clothing hiding in a backyard near South Essex Avenue. A follow-up call reported one of the males was armed with a gun. The males were seen looking into the yard as if they had dropped something. Vehicle registration details were checked and found expired.

Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 08
03:37
Transcript:
00:00
424 check on a suspicious person near South Essex caller says that several males wearing dark clothing ran towards the backyard near Essex and appear to be hiding no further
00:22
Tamp horse crowd, but we're the area one checked already too.
00:26
620.
00:27
620, go ahead.
00:33
620. 620. 620.
00:35
620.
00:37
Hey, can you send one of the units south to 77th in Champlain? I got the offender over here.
00:43
All right, for the units, can somebody head over to 7-7 and Champlain? It meets 620.
00:49
He has the offender over there.
00:53
634. Here we call.
00:56
10-4.
00:57
6-71 are you over there too?
01:02
6-7-1-Row.
01:07
All right, and then 620, just to confirm, are you at 7-8 or 7-7? I see your squad at 7-8.
01:16
Yeah, I'm sorry, squad, 7-8.
01:18
All right, 10-4.
01:19
634, he's at 7-8 in Champlain, okay?
01:24
10-4.
01:27
620 can you put this license place at the temp tag in the box? Tom (number withheld).
01:37
Some far.
01:44
620, it's coming back clear but expired on a Honda registered to (name withheld).
01:51
The letter of the VIN should be 2013.
01:54
It expired back in May of 2025.
02:00
This is, I'm sorry, this is an Indiana temporary tag.
02:08
Correct. That's what it's coming back as.
02:11
It's a 2006 Honda registered to (name withheld) out of Franklin, Indiana.
02:19
I got Tom. All right, 99.
02:21
No, this is on a blue, Chevy Malibu.
02:25
Jonah, give me a VIN.
02:31
Snap off.
02:33
95.
02:35
Yes, all. You can close early in Gainesville, 624, John, Watson.
02:40
So far.
02:47
432.
02:58
432.32, I'm going to drop an alarm, 108,
03:01
28, South Avenue O.
03:03
For the mess of residents, activation was the garage door, 108-28-Avany-O.
03:08
Okay.
03:13
424 for an update 24 Getting a second call now is coming over as a person with a gun for the several males hiding in the gangway.
03:26
The caller says that he saw one of them with a gun in his hand They were looking in the yard as if they had dropped something.
03:34
No callback, no further

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