Security guard shoots migrant during fight outside Chatham shopping center

CHICAGO (WLS) — A security guard shot migrant day laborer and suffered a broken finger after an altercation Tuesday morning, Chicago police said.

The incident occurred at about 8:30 a.m. in the Chatham Ridge Shopping Center in the 100-block of West 87th Street.

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Police said a 23-year-old man working as a security guard became involved in a verbal and physical altercation with a large group of individuals, many of them believed to be migrants.

The security guard was struck and suffered a broken finger and fired his weapon, hitting a 28-year-old man, who a migrant day laborer, in the wrist and ankle.

The wounded man was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious but stable condition, police said.

The security guard has a valid FOID and CCL, police said.

No other injuries were reported and Area Two detectives are investigating.

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