Suburban Cop Shoots Three

Oops (on the part of the bad guys that is):

• At least three people were shot on the South Side late Friday during a robbery attempt on a man believed to be an off-duty Markham police officer.

  Several people approached the man a little before 10:20 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Yates Boulevard and attacked him with a baseball bat while trying to rob him, and he responded by shooting three people, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor.

  Taylor said she believed the man was an off-duty Markham police officer, but as of about 11:15 p.m. was trying to get confirmation from Chicago officers who responded to the scene.

Evidently, the three offenders were attempting to graduate from Stick-Up College. This was the final exam. They failed.