Alsip Police Video Shows Moments Before Officer-Involved Shooting

ALSIP, IL -- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Alsip police released video showing an officer shooting at a black Cadillac and seriously wounding a drag racing suspect as the vehicle drove toward police. The 25-year-old driver, Jamal Campbell, whose last known address was in Chicago, has been charged with attempted murder.

The police dashcam video shows the police-involved shooting from two different perspectives. There is also a video from the Midpointe Apartments security camera. The incident happened in the early morning hours of Oct. 3. Alsip police received reports of drag racing through a residential neighborhood between a silver Dodge Challenger and a black Cadillac Escalade.

Officers soon located the Cadillac, idling in the parking lot of the Midpointe Apartments on 115th Street, just across the Pulaski Road in Chicago’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood. In the police dash cam videos, the Cadillac can be seen facing the arriving police units.

Officers are heard ordering the driver, later identified as Campbell, and the front seat passenger to show their hands. (SUBSCRIBE: Get Real-Time Alerts and a Daily Newsletter for Alsip-Crestwood)

The passenger raises his hands. After numerous commands to the driver to show his hands, the Cadillac appears to be backing up, before driving through the phalanx of police. An Alsip officer can be seen leaping out of the way, followed by rapid gunfire.

In the Midpointe Apartments security video, around the 18-second mark, police vehicles are seen arriving in the distance. The officers get out of the car. The Cadillac drives toward the assembled police. After shots are fired, the Cadillac crashes into the vehicles parked in the lot.

Campbell was shot in the jaw and shoulder. His attorney told a Cook County judge during a bond review on Oct. 9 that his client had several teeth removed during a surgery to repair his jaw, while under police guard at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Campbell was later transferred to Cermak Hospital. Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke, Jr. set bail at $20,000 with electronic home monitoring. Campbell also had an active arrest warrant out of Indiana for a felony drug charge. Campbell’s next court hearing is set for Oct. 30 at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building.

"Motor vehicles are deadly weapons, and offenders everywhere from New York to Europe have used them to drive at, injure, and kill hundreds of innocent people in just the last two years alone," Alsip Police Chief Jay Miller said in written statement.

“The offender chose to endanger families' lives when he chose to race in their neighborhood, he chose to ignore lawful police commands, and he chose to drive his vehicle at our officer,” Miller said. Those choices the offender made put several lives in danger that night, including his own.”

Miller added that the “Alsip officer who protected himself from the offender” has returned to work, as has his partner. The officer-involved shooting is under review by Illinois State Police.