Police Fatally Shoot Man at Boyhood Home of Chicago Bulls Derrick Rose

Police shot and killed a man early Sunday morning in the city’s West Englewood neighborhood.

The shooting took place around 4:40 a.m. in the 7300 block of South Paulina Street, in a brick bungalow that is being reported as the former boyhood home of Chicago Bulls player Derrick Rose.

In a written statement issued by Chicago Police News Affairs, officers received multiple 911 calls of a “person with a gun/home invasion.”

When officers arrived they were met by an armed man and shots were exchanged. The man was fatally wounded and a weapon was recovered. No officers were injured, Police News Affairs said.

The man was identified as Charles M. Smith, 29, of the 2100 block of West 77th Street in Chicago, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Larry Merritt, a spokesman for the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates all police-involved shootings, told the Chicago Tribune that Smith was pronounced dead inside the home.

Per a change in policy implemented in December by CPD, the officer involved in the shooting will be taken off the streets and immediately placed on mandatory 30-day desk duty.

Neighbors said they had heard arguing from the home lately, and believed the man shot by police was the boyfriend of the woman who lived at the house, the Tribune reported.

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