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Teen reaches $1.9 million settlement after officer shot him in gun battle with bank robbery suspect
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Lucia Morales hugs her 19-year-old son, Rylan Wilder in the hallway at their attorney's office in the Loop, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Wilder, who was shot and wounded during a 2019 shootout between suburban Chicago police and a bank robbery suspect inside a music school has reached a $1.9 million settlement with the city of Des Plaines. - photo by Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP
CHICAGO (AP) — A teenager who was shot and wounded during a 2019 shootout between suburban Chicago police and a bank robbery suspect inside a music school has reached a $1.9 million settlement with the city of Des Plaines. Rylan Wilder signed off this week on the settlement, nearly four years after a bullet fired by Des Plaines Officer James Armstrong tore a hole through his left arm, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Armstrong was chasing an armed man who had shot another officer after a bank robbery in Des Plaines when the suspect ran into Upbeat Music & Arts on Chicago’s Northwest Side.