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A man believed to be one of four robbers who held up a truck driver this morning was shot by police a short time later in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood, authorities said.
The shooting happened just before 11:30 a.m. on the 1600 block of West Garfield Boulevard near a Citgo gas station, police said. Chicago Police Department News Affairs confirmed that police shot someone in that area.
The person was dead, according to some early reports, but that information has not been confirmed by News Affairs or the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Citing preliminary information, authorities said four robbers with guns held up a truck driver near 38th Street and Kedzie Avenue between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
The robbers attacked the truck driver, authorities said, but it's not immediately clear if they got away with any proceeds before fleeing the scene.
Witnesses were able to give police a detailed description of the robbers' vehicle -- a silver SUV, authorities said. Officers eventually spotted the SUV and chased it before it struck a light pole at Garfield and Ashland Avenue, authorities said.
Three of the robbers ran from the SUV, authorities said, but the fourth was involved in a confrontation with responding officers at the scene before he was shot.
That robber's condition was not immediately known, but the other three are at large this afternoon.
Authorities said the robbery crew might be linked to another hold-up that occurred earlier this morning, prior to the one at 38th and Kedzie.
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