About 11:30 p.m. Friday, officers near the intersection of Division Street and Maplewood Avenue saw two people shooting at each other, according to preliminary information from Mia Sissac, a spokeswoman for the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police-involved shootings.
One or more officers fired shots, and a male whose age was not immediately available suffered injuries that weren't life-threatening, according to a news release from Chicago police. No officers were reported injured.
Shortly afterward, a person was found shot dead in a car farther west on Division Street, police said. He is believed to have been killed in the gunfire that the officers originally witnessed, police said.
The person shot by police is believed to have been one of the shooters in the original exchange of gunfire, Sissac said.
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