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Early Sunday morning in Robbins, Illinois an officer responding to a shooting inside a bar shot and killed a armed security guard Jemel Roberson.

The incident started after security asked a group of drunken men to leave Manny’s Blue Room Bar around 4 a.m. Sunday when witness say someone came back with a gun and opened fire. The security fired back and witness claim 26-year-old Roberson apprehended one of the men involved in the shooting WGN 9 reported.

Witness Adam Harris said, “He had somebody on the ground with his knee in back, with his gun in his back like, ‘Don’t move.'”

Then witnesses said an Midlothian police officer responding to the incident fired at Roberson killing him.

“Everybody was screaming out, ‘Security!’ He was a security guard,” Harris said. “And they still did their job, and saw a black man with a gun, and basically killed him.”

Four other people, including the suspected shooter, sustained non-life threatening injuries the news outlet reported.

A Cook County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman said Roberson had a valid FOID card, but did not have a concealed-carry license. In a statement police confirmed two officers responded to the scene of the shooting and one had opened fire.

“A Midlothian officer encountered a subject with a gun and was involved in an officer-involved shooting. The subject the officer shot was later pronounced deceased at an area hospital,” Chief Daniel Delaney of the Midlothian Police Department said in a statement.

Friends of Roberson said he was an upstanding man who was also a musician and played keyboard and drums at several Chicago-area churches. Roberson also had plans to become a police officer.

The Rev. Patricia Hill of Purposed Church said, “Every artist he’s ever played for every musician he’s ever sat beside, we’re all just broken because we have no answers. He was getting ready to train and do all that stuff, so the very people he wanted to be family with, took his life.”

“Once again, it’s the continued narrative that we see of shoot first, ask questions later,” the Rev. LeAundre Hill of Purposed Church said.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the original shooting and the State Police Public Integrity Task Force is investigating the police-involved shooting.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help cover funeral costs for Jemel Roberson.

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