Four people are charged in connection with an attempted robbery of undercover federal agents Tuesday in Country Club Hills that resulted in two suspects being shot by officers.
Undercover agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were investigating a firearm-trafficking operation around 5:30 p.m. in the 18800 block of Loretto Lane, where they had arranged to buy firearms as part of the investigation, according to federal court documents.
Amir Fagan, 19, Demond Edwards, 18, and a third person arrived in a car, got out and pointed firearms at the undercover agents, trying to rob them, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for Northern Illinois.
Another group of ATF agents arrived at the scene, and one of them fired shots, striking Fagan, prosecutors said.
The driver of the suspects’ car, Chashonn Toney, 18, rammed his car into an ATF vehicle while trying to flee the scene, prosecutors said.
Edwards ran from the scene, but an undercover Chicago police officer chased him and stopped him about two blocks away, according to prosecutors and Chicago’s police oversight agency. Edwards struck the officer “multiple times” in the face and body, leading the officer to shoot Edwards, prosecutors said.
Both suspects who were shot were in critical condition and were taken to hospitals, where their conditions were stabilized — and where they also were placed under arrest. A law enforcement officer was taken to a hospital for observation as well.
Three other people were apprehended at the scene, officials said.
But four people were named in the criminal complaint filed Thursday in federal court: Fagan, Edwards, Toney and Tevin Curlee, 29.
Fagan, of Harvey, and Edwards, of Markham, are both charged with attempted robbery. Toney, of Robbins, is charged with forcibly assaulting a law enforcement officer. Curlee, of Country Club Hills, is charged with unlawfully possessing and transferring a machine gun. Curlee is accused of selling a handgun equipped with a machine gun conversion device to undercover officers June 3 in south suburban Crestwood.
Each of their first appearances in court are pending.
The federal investigation into the incident is ongoing.