Good afternoon, Chicago.
Local law enforcement leaders gathered this morning to announce charges in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Cook County sheriff’s deputy on the South Side earlier this week.
Cordarrow Thompson, 31, was charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, attempted armed robbery and one count of armed habitual criminal in the early Tuesday shooting death of Rafael Wordlaw, according to Cook County court records. Wordlaw, also 31, was off duty when he was fatally shot during a robbery attempt-turned-shootout at a gas station in the 500 block of East 67th Street, authorities said.
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