(CBS/STMW) – Heavily armed police have surrounded a four-door car with tinted windows on Lake Shore Drive just north of Fullerton and are demanding the man inside — a suspected armed fugitive wanted for murder — to show his hands and surrender.
The car has pulled off into a grassy area east of the Lake Shore Drive, just north of the Theater on the Lake.
Police are demanding through a loudspeaker that the man inside the car to “show me your hands” and “put your hands up.” The man is wanted for murder involving the Harvey police, a police source said.
The standoff was creating a traffic nightmare on Lake Shore Drive with police diverting traffic off well away from the scene. Joggers and cyclists were also being turned back along the path there.
A Toyota Avalon with two women and a small boy inside had been rear-ended just south of the Fullerton exit, by a car that took off, but it was not clear if it was related to the chase of the fugitive. The chase apparentluy started on the Dan Ryan Expressway and involved the Illinois State Police.
Joseph Andrew Felton Jr. (Credit: Henry County Police)
According to Harvey Police, the Hampton, Ga Police Department contacted them Sunday about a homicide suspect they believed was in Harvey. Harvey police showed up where the suspects was believed to be hiding. The suspect took off and police followed him onto I-57 and I-94 before the chase ended on Lake Shore Drive.
Henry County Sheriff’s Sergeant Joey Smith says authorities were called to a home just outside Hampton, Georgia, Saturday – after family members of 39-year-old woman, Sheray Latriest Felton, forced their way in and found her body.
Authorities issued a murder warrant for her husband, Joseph Andrew Felton Jr.
And about 12:30 this afternoon, Sergeant Smith says Felton was located in Harvey, Illinois, and the chase began.
“We knew he had family up in that area… We were notifying the agencies up in that area to be on the lookout for that vehicle. Evidently someone must have spotted it.”
Sergeant Smith says police were called to the Felton home in January for a domestic assault and Felton was arrested.
He says the couple moved from the Chicago area to Georgia about four months ago.
Chicago police had no immediate comment.
Chicago Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
