Border Patrol shoots armed woman on Chicago's South Side

U.S. Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman on Chicago's South Side on Saturday morning after they said their vehicle was rammed and boxed in by multiple cars while on routine patrol, federal officials and local authorities said. The Department of Homeland Security said the shooting occurred around 10:30 a.m. near South California Avenue and West 35th Street in the Brighton Park neighborhood; Chicago police reported a person was wounded near 39th Street and South Kedzie Avenue.

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said agents were conducting routine patrols when their vehicle was struck by 10 cars and "boxed in." She said one of the drivers who rammed the vehicle was armed with a semiautomatic weapon and agents "were forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots." DHS said no federal officers were injured.

Officials gave differing accounts of the wounded woman's transport to a hospital. DHS said the woman drove herself to receive treatment. A Chicago Fire Department spokesman said emergency teams found the woman and took her to a local hospital, where she was reported in stable condition. Authorities have not released the woman's identity....