Crime & Safety
Homewood Resident Identified in Police Shooting
The 30-year-old Homewood man was shot and killed in the apartment he lived in after getting into a confrontation with police early Sunday morning.
The man fatally shot by police early Sunday morning has been identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office as 30-year-old Homewood resident Brandon Culpepper, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Police say they were responding to a disturbance call at an apartment building on the 900 block of Olive Rd. just before 7 a.m. Sunday when they got into a confrontation with Culpepper. The sitution lead to his shooting death in his residence on the third floor.
Few other details have been released as state police proceed with an internal investigation of the shooting. We will update with more information as it becomes available.
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