Overview
- Authorities say Maurice Reddick fired at a 33-year-old woman and then shot toward two uniformed Chicago police officers, prompting his arrest after he fled into a nearby home.
- Officers recovered three firearms at the scene, including an AR-15–style rifle fitted with a machine-gun conversion device and a handgun with a drum magazine.
- Prosecutors reported that shell-casing testing tied rounds at the scene to the AR-15 and the drum-magazine handgun and have cited that evidence in charging documents.
- Reddick, a parolee with prior felony firearm convictions, faces multiple felony counts including two counts of attempted first-degree murder and remains detained after a Cook County hearing.
- No one was hit by the gunfire, multiple children were inside or nearby and were removed by officers, and prosecutors say the case could lead to parole revocation and enhanced legal scrutiny because of the conversion device.