By Police1 Staff
The Chicago Tribune reports that at roughly 0140 hours, as officers were approaching the residence in response to a domestic violence call, a suspect later identified as Flint Farmer, 29, was fatally shot by police.
The Chicago area man attempted to escape police who then pursued the suspect on foot, identified themselves, and ordered the man to stop running. At one point, the subject aggressively lurched toward at least one officer while pulling an object from his pocket.
A department statement said, “The officer believed [it] to be a handgun,” and, fearing for his safety, the officer fired his gun at the fleeing suspect, fatally wounding him.
Farmer had been at his girlfriend’s home and was engaging her in a fight about their two-year-old daughter, according to Farmer’s father, Emmett Farmer. According to police, the woman was missing a chunk of her hair, and her face and head were bloody and swollen.
Flint Farmer had been arrested on March 13 for domestic battery, but the charges were dismissed later that month.
Sources say that no gun was found on the scene — just a cell phone.