Selling A Machine Gun On City Time / Konkol / Ambulance Jacker Caught

One of my neighbors in Pullman was shot by police Friday, around the corner from me.

Rumors, wilted flowers and a scrap of police tape weakly clinging to the Langley Park fence are all that lingers from Friday's shooting while we all wait for the body cam video to be released.

That's life in our city.

KONKOL COLUMN: My Dog-Walking, Allegedly Armed Neighbor Got Shot By Cops Near Park

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• The alleged ambulance jacker has been captured. Chicagoan Benjamin Herrington, 46, was charged with fleeing and resisting police and possession of a stolen Chicago Fire Department ambulance. He led authorities on a 75-mile chase on Interstate 55. (Patch)
• A 45th Ward Streets and Sanitation department supervisor got busted trying to sell an illegal machine gun to an undercover agent. Charles Sikanich was on the clock, and driving a city vehicle. He even tried to have his mother close the deal, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said. (Patch)
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About me: Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."