An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a man in west suburban Maywood Saturday, Aug. 11 after the officer crashed his motorcycle trying to avoid running into the man’s daughter, according to officials. The officer was on a northbound motorcycle heading home about 10 p.m. after his shift in a West Side police station and saw a 4-year-old girl dart into the street in the 1100 block of South 1st Ave., authorities said. The officer ditched his bike, but the bike hit the child and her 18-year-old cousin. The girl’s father, 26-year-old Christopher Middleton, approached the officer yelling and screaming, authorities said. He was inside a nearby restaurant when the accident happened, said Larry Shapiro, a spokesman for the village of Maywood.
