A man was shot and killed by an FBI agent in the city’s Lower West Side neighborhood on Monday evening, multiple law enforcement sources told the Tribune.
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The Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed a fatality but did not release the man’s identity following the shooting Monday evening in the 1700 block of South Union Avenue near an exit ramp from the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Details of what led up to the shooting remained sparse Tuesday, but the Chicago Police Department’s Investigative Response Team — the detectives who investigate shootings by CPD officers — responded to the scene Monday night, according to the department. In a statement issued Monday night, the FBI confirmed the agency was investigating a shooting involving an agent.
A gun was found at the scene under or near an e-bike, sources told the Tribune.
Court records matching the name and age of the deceased indicate he was a Venezuelan national with a listed address in a nearby homeless shelter facing a pending retail theft charge.
Prosecutors alleged that he tried to steal five necklaces in May from a Nordstrom on Grand Avenue worth more than $300. A warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to appear for a court date in Skokie on June 1.
He was previously cited in 2024 for driving with a cracked windshield, no insurance, no valid drivers license, and with marijuana in the car, public records show. A police report associated with that citation listed his address at 344 N. Ogden Avenue, which was at the time operating as a migrant shelter.
Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, said he went to the scene after the shooting occurred. Several residents told him they heard a single gunshot followed by nine more shots fired several minutes later, he said.
Sigcho-Lopez also said an FBI agent was observed firing a gun from behind a vehicle and that the deceased man may have been riding an e-bike prior to the shooting.
“We are demanding a full investigation, a full and expedient investigation, into the use of deadly force,” Sigcho-Lopez told the Tribune.