Off-duty Chicago officer fatally shoots man during argument

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police say an off-duty officer fatally shot an unarmed man during an argument on the city's Northwest Side.

Superintendent Eddie Johnson tells reporters that the officer shot the man several times during a "verbal altercation" shortly after 9 a.m. Monday in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood. Johnson says the two men knew each other from a recent confrontation.

Police say that the 57-year-old officer was visiting an acquaintance in the area at the time of the shooting.

Neither the name of the officer nor the shooting victim has been released.

Johnson says he has "more questions than I have answers at this time" about the shooting. It was the second time in the first two days of 2017 that a Chicago police officer shot someone.