A purported gang member arrested this week for shooting a year-old girl last summer tried to escape by climbing into the drop-ceiling of a police interrogation room, authorities said.
Malik Jackson, 17, didn’t get very far — but officials upped his charges to include attempted escape and criminal damage to property.
When he was being questioned at Area 2 police headquarters on the Far South Side Tuesday, Jackson allegedly tried to escape by scaling the wall and climbing into the drop ceiling in an interview room.
Detectives heard the tile falling, and Jackson was detained in the ceiling above, Caceres said. Jackson’s alleged antics damaged the ceiling. It will cost $350 to repair, Caceres said.
We can think of a bunch of times where this has occurred - offender slips a cuff, climbs up into the handing ceiling and then either finds an exit or falls though. Always in the old Area buildings, too. You would think someone would fix that somewhere in the intervening thirty years.