Video shows gunman shot by police seconds after killing man

Chicago Sun-Times

Video released Tuesday shows a pair of Chicago Police officers gunning down an armed man seconds after seeing him shoot two people outside a Homan Square bar.

The video from the early morning hours of Nov. 25, 2016, was captured by surveillance cameras across the street from Skybox. The grainy footage shows the intersection of Harrison and Central Park Avenue. Jeffrey J. Banks, 35, can be seen running while hunched over, as 37-year-old Cleotha Mitchell follows him at a walking pace, firing a pistol.

Banks slumps to the pavement even as a CPD SUV swerves into the intersection behind Mitchell. Mitchell continues to walk toward Banks and stands over him as the officers leap out of the vehicle with their guns raised.

Mitchell turns toward the officers and appears to move toward them, then collapses onto the ground as he is shot.

The video was one of six posted to the website of the Independent Police Review Authority, just ahead of the 60-day deadline for the agency to release video of a police shooting. The agency also posted eight audio files and four written reports. IPRA has not yet issued a report on the shooting, spokeswoman Mia Sissac said.

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