Chicago police overnight shot and killed an armed man who shot at officers and then hid in a gangway on the South Side, police said.

The gunman, identified Wednesday as Brandon Teague, 25, hit one officer's shoe and the bulletproof vest of another but wounded neither one, police said. He also opened fire with his semiautomatic gun on a police helicopter hovering over the scene in the Auburn Gresham community, police said.

The incident marked the second time in less than 24 hours that Chicago police instituted a barricade response, requiring the presence of SWAT officers.

Police approached Teague, who they thought appeared suspicious, at 79th and Justine Streets about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. As the officers approached, the man opened fire on them, shooting an officer in the shoe without hitting the foot, police said.



Teague then ran to a gangway outside a nearby building at 79th and Bishop Streets to seek refuge, prompting SWAT officers to respond, police said.

Teague fired multiple shots at the officers and at the police helicopter overhead, police said. At some point, he opened fire on one of the SWAT officers, striking him in his protective vest. The bullet became lodged in one of the vest's pockets, police said.

"This goes to show you how dangerous this is and safety vests do work," Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said at the scene early Wednesday. "This was a very fortunate incident in which the SWAT officer was not wounded."

Police eventually fatally shot Teague and recovered what was believed to be the gun used in shooting the officers, Bond said. The standoff lasted until about 12:30 a.m., police said.

An autopsy determined that Teague was shot multiple times and died on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. His home address was not immediately available.

As the helicopter hovered around the area early Wednesday, some 100 onlookers gathered at 79th and Loomis Boulevard, about a block away from the shooting, as police cordoned off the area to the public.

The Independent Police Review Authority, which probes shootings involving Chicago police officers, was investigating the circumstances of the shooting Wednesday.

Tuesday morning, a few miles away, SWAT officers surrounded a South Side home near 84th Street and Wabash Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood after a man barricaded himself inside a garage.

Police had initially received a call about 10:30 a.m. of a person with a knife in that area. When they arrived, they saw the man sitting outside the garage and spoke with him briefly, before he ran into the garage and barricaded himself inside.

Neighbors said the man is believed to be a former Chicago police officer who had a relationship with a woman who lives at the home and who herself is believed to be a Chicago police officer. Bond, however, could not confirm that information.

The man was eventually taken into custody about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, but further details of that incident were not available.