Officers fatally shoot man with knife at Little Village senior building: Chicago police
Jan 03, 2025
Officers responded to a domestic call and fatally shot a knife-wielding man early Friday inside a Little Village senior building, according to Chicago police.Ogden District officers responded to a call of a person with a knife about 2 a.m. inside a sixth-floor apartment of the Albany Terrace Apartments, 3030 W. 21st Place, police said in a preliminary statement. The man's girlfriend had called 911 to report that she was being attacked by the man, who she said had a knife and screwdriver, according to a recording of police dispatch audio.Police said they were confronted by a 57-year-old man with a knife while knocking on the apartment door. The man charged at officers and they fired their weapons, striking the man multiple times, police said. Officers said they struck the man in the chest, according to the radio transmissions.He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead, police said. The man was identified as Timothy Glaze by the Cook County medical examiner's office, who said he lived on the block where the shooting occurred.Police said two officers were hospitalized for observation.The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which responded to the shooting, asked anyone with information on the shooting to call to call COPA's office at 312-746-3609.The officers involved will be placed on routine administrative duties for at least 30 days.The Chicago Housing Authority runs the Albany Terrace Apartments, a 17-story, 350-unit building for people 55 or older. It was built in 1974 and is undergoing revitalization in 2025, according to their website.Three weeks earlier, a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot a block away. On Dec. 14, police said the boy, Victor Alezandar Cedillo, was fatally shot in an alley in the 3100 block of West Cermak Road.