Officer Shot, Woman Dead After Oak Forest Food 4 Less Shooting

OAK FOREST, IL —An officer is in serious but stable condition and a 21-year-old woman was fatally shot by police after exchanging gunfire with officers inside the Food 4 Less store at 159th Street and Central Avenue in Oak Forest.

Police said officers responded to a report of a possible motorist in need of help just before 11 a.m. Sunday in the 6000 block of 159th Street. Police later determined that the driver, 21-year-old Ketura Wilson of the 300 block of Yates Avenue in Calumet City, was armed with a gun.

Officers followed Wilson east on 159th Street, where she entered the soon-to-close Food 4 Less store, police said. Inside the store, officials said, she exchanged gunfire with police. Both Wilson and an officer, who was in serious but stable condition, were hit by gunshots.

The officer was taken to a nearby hospital, police said.

Employees at the nearby Great Clips store told Patch a woman who had been at the Food 4 Less self-checkout ran into the salon and told workers there that there was someone shooting inside the grocery store. A worker told Patch they locked the doors to the salon and took employees and customers to the back of the building, where they could hear gunfire coming from inside the Food 4 Less.

Oak Forest officials issued an active shooter alert around noon Sunday, later saying there was no longer a threat to the public, but asked residents to continue to avoid the area.

The shooting is being investigated by the Illinois Public Integrity Task Force and the Oak Forest Police Department.

It's one of two fatal shootings involving police on Sunday in the Chicago area.

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