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Officer mistaken for carjacker slain in Cal City
February 20, 2005
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Staff Reporter
An off-duty Cook County Corrections Department officer was shot dead in Calumet City early Saturday by a co-worker who mistook him for a carjacker harassing his family, police said.
Arlin McClendon, 36, was driving with a colleague around 1 a.m. in the 500 block of Bensley Avenue when they saw a Honda they thought was being driven by another co-worker, Calumet City Police Chief Patrick O'Meara said.
But it was really the co-worker's wife and child in the Honda. The co-worker was traveling in a Toyota sport-utility vehicle ahead of his family, O'Meara said. McClendon, a 10-year corrections veteran from Calumet City, and his friend began honking and flashing their lights at the Honda. When the woman pulled over, McClendon got of his car, began yelling for the driver to get out and pulled on the car's door. By then, the woman's husband arrived. Thinking that his wife and child were being carjacked, the man identified himself as a police officer and shot McClendon in the abdomen, police said.
"It appears as if it may have been a prank that just went wrong," O'Meara said.
No charges had been filed as of Saturday night. The other officers were not identified.
Officer mistaken for carjacker slain in Cal City
February 20, 2005
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Staff Reporter
An off-duty Cook County Corrections Department officer was shot dead in Calumet City early Saturday by a co-worker who mistook him for a carjacker harassing his family, police said.
Arlin McClendon, 36, was driving with a colleague around 1 a.m. in the 500 block of Bensley Avenue when they saw a Honda they thought was being driven by another co-worker, Calumet City Police Chief Patrick O'Meara said.
But it was really the co-worker's wife and child in the Honda. The co-worker was traveling in a Toyota sport-utility vehicle ahead of his family, O'Meara said. McClendon, a 10-year corrections veteran from Calumet City, and his friend began honking and flashing their lights at the Honda. When the woman pulled over, McClendon got of his car, began yelling for the driver to get out and pulled on the car's door. By then, the woman's husband arrived. Thinking that his wife and child were being carjacked, the man identified himself as a police officer and shot McClendon in the abdomen, police said.
"It appears as if it may have been a prank that just went wrong," O'Meara said.
No charges had been filed as of Saturday night. The other officers were not identified.