1 Charged In February Attack On Chicago Police Detective

Chicago IL

25 April, 2021

10:55 AM

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CHICAGO — An arrest has been made in the Feb. 8 attack on a Chicago Police Department detective. Kenyon Washington, 23, of the 3000 block of East 80th Street, was charged Friday with attempted first degree murder and armed robbery, Chicago police said. He was charged "without incident," police said around 8 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Commercial Avenue, in the city's South Shore neighborhood. Police said Washington is one of multiple suspects who attacked the on-duty detective in the 7700 block of South Yates Avenue. The detective was there investigating a murder scene, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report, when two men attacked him. One of the men had a gun and the other had a knife, the report states. The men pushed the detective in the back and robbed him, according to the Sun-Times. Police did not state whether Washington is suspected of having the knife or the gun.