A police officer shot and wounded an alleged shoplifter at a Kohl's store in southwest suburban Romeoville. 
 
 Debbie Turner was leaving a Kohl's store in Romeoville with her daughter when she saw a police officer, his shirt off and his shoulder bandaged, getting into an ambulance. Other officers were taking a man into custody. 
 
 
 
 Then she saw her car, surrounded by crime tape and not far from a black Pontiac Sunfire with a side window shot out. 
 
 Turner had been inside the store with her 26-year-old daughter Meghan Thursday night, getting a jump on holiday deals with a crowd of other shoppers, when a suspected shoplifter was shot by police after dragging an officer in the parking lot, authorities said. 
 
 "I didn't hear a thing," said Turner, of Lockport. 
 
 
 
 The crime scene caused a spectacle in the bustling parking lot but did not halt shopping at the department store at 261 South Weber Road. People stared and took photos before walking around the yellow tape blocking one of the store's entrances. 
 
 
 
 The commotion began about 10 p.m. when police were alerted to a theft in progress at the store, Romeoville Police Chief Mark Turvey said. Police officers waited outside the store and soon saw two men bringing a shopping cart out of the store toward the Sunfire, police and witnesses said. 
 
 
 
 One of the suspects ran toward the Sunfire, police said. An officer caught up with him but the suspect "closed the car door on the officer's arm, not allowing the officer to disengage from the vehicle," police said in a statement. "The driver then drove away, dragging the officer with the vehicle. 
 
 
 
 "A second responding officer verbally ordered the driver multiple times to stop the vehicle as it continued in the parking lot, dragging the officer," the statement said. "After repeated orders to stop, the officer fire three to four shots at the driver." 
 
 
 
 The driver, 52, was wounded in the left arm, police said. The Sunfire stopped and the driver and a passenger were arrested. A third suspect was arrested in the store. All three suspects are from Joliet. 
 
 Felony charges were filed against two suspects this morning: Robert Russell, 51, of the 500 block of Francis Avenue, and Gerald Chamberlain, 28, of the 1300 block of Englewood. Romeoville police said Russell was a passenger in the car when the shooting took place and Chamberlain was still inside the store. 
 
 Russell was booked in the Will County Jail on charges of attempted murder, retail theft and obstructing an officer. Chamberlain was jailed on a single count of felony theft. 
 
 
 
 Both men have lengthy criminal histories. Russell was arrested for obstructing a peace officer in 2009. He was also sent to prison on theft and drug charges in 2002, according to Will County court records. 
 
 
 
 Chamberlain was jailed in 2008 for resisting a peace officer or correctional employee. In 2009, he was sent to prison on a cocaine charge. He’s now awaiting trial on a felony drug charge, records show. 
 
 The driver had not been charged as of Friday morning, according to records on the Will County Sheriff’s website. He was being treated at Loyola Medical Center. 
 
 
 
 The officer was treated and released from Bolingbrook Adventist Hospital. 
 
 Employees at the Romeoville store referred comment to Kohl’s spokeswoman Sydney Hofer, who declined to say whether private security or off-duty police were at the store Thursday evening. 
 
 
 
 Hofer said in a statement that Kohl’s was cooperating with the investigation, but would not provide additional information. 
 
 Shoppers expecting crowds, not crime scenes, seemed stunned to see the heavy police presence in front of the store. Some snapped photos with phones, and several asked reporters what was going on. 
 
 
 
 "Is the store open?" one woman asked. "What happened?" 
 
 
 
 Several shoppers approaching the blocked main entrance and walked to the edge of the police tape without breaking stride, prompting warnings from police not to duck under the tape. The shoppers were directed by police to an unblocked entrance north of the police tape. 
 
 
 
 Watching the scene from the department store's window, Turner's daughter Meghan said she was still planning on shopping elsewhere early this morning. 
 
 
 
 "I just need a nap so I can go back out at 5 a.m.," she said. ||||| Two men charged stemming from Black Friday incident at Romeoville Kohl’s BY FRANK VAISVILAS AND ASHLEE REZIN For Sun-Times Media 
 
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 ROMEOVILLE — A Romeoville Police officer shot a man and another officer was injured Thursday night while trying to stop three Joliet men suspected of shoplifting at a Kohl’s store in the southwest suburb. 
 
 Police received a call from store security about shoplifters about 10:10 p.m. Thursday, according to a statement from Romeoville police. 
 
 Two officers arrived on the scene and confronted 51-year-old Robert L. Russell Jr., who was trying to flee the store, located at 261 S. Weber Road. The officers chased Russell, who jumped into the passenger seat of a Pontiac Sunfire, police said. 
 
 One of the officers caught up to the car on foot, and while the officer attempted to arrest Russell, of the 500 block of Francis Street in Joliet, he closed the car door on the officer’s arm, police said. 
 
 The officer’s arm was still stuck in the car’s door when the driver pulled away, dragging the officer, police said. 
 
 His backup officer ordered the driver to stop, but the car kept moving. The backup officer fired three or four shots into the car, hitting the driver in the left arm, police said. 
 
 The officer who was dragged suffered a non-life-threatening shoulder injury and was taken to Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital in Bolingbrook, police said. 
 
 The driver, 52-year-old Charles Hinch, of the 400 block of Pico Street in Joliet, was taken to Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital in Bolingbrook with one gunshot wound, and later transferred to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, police said. 
 
 Russell and Hinch were both arrested, police said. A third man who was apprehended while still inside the store, 28-year-old Gerald Chamberlain, of the 1300 block of Englewood Avenue in Joliet, was also arrested in connection with the incident. 
 
 Chamberlain and Russell were booked into the county jail around 9:45 a.m. Friday and are scheduled to appear in court Saturday. 
 
 Chamberlain was being held on suspicion of felony theft. 
 
 Will County State’s attorney spokesman Charles Pelkie said Friday afternoon that charges were being reviewed and Russell likely would be charged with aggravated battery to a police officer. Formal charges will be filed for preliminary hearings and bail on Saturday, Pelkie said. 
 
 Jail records indicate Russell spent three months behind bars after a shoplifting arrest by Crest Hill police in 2009. 
 
 Chamberlain was arrested in May on drug possession charges and is already scheduled to appear in court Dec. 23 on traffic charges. 
 
 Hinch remains hospitalized, according to reports. He was released on parole from the Dixon Correctional Center for a 2011 conviction of drug possession in Will County. 
 
 The Department of Corrections reports since 1986 Hinch has done eight previous prison stretches for burglary, shoplifting, drug dealing and forgery in Will and Cook counties. 
 
 By Friday morning, By 7 a.m., all signs of the shooting were gone other than a line of TV news crew trucks parked along the south side of the store’s parking lot. Black Friday shoppers arriving hours after the event seemed unfazed by the shooting. 
 
 Karen Hasberger of Romeoville said her husband heard about the incident late Thursday and sent her a text. 
 
 “I thought he was joking,” she said. 
 
 But there is one thing that bothers her about the shooting, she said as she walked into the store to return some items. 
 
 “What bothers me is it was over clothing,” she said. “So that’s upsetting that somebody felt they had to steal clothing, and a police office put his life on the line for that. It’s not like a jewelry heist or a bank robbery.” 
 
 A spokesperson for Kohl’s said in an email Friday that the store is cooperating with investigators, and deferred any further comment to police. 
 
 “This is definitely a rare occurrence,” Romeoville Police Chief Mark Turvey said early Friday. “We’ve had shoplifting on Black Friday, but something like this is rare.” 
 
 The officer who fired at the car will be on station duty during the investigation of the incident, he said. 
 
 One entrance to the Kohl’s, at Airport Road and Weber Road about a mile south of Interstate 55, remained open early Friday and people were still shopping inside the store. 
 
 Monica Hernandez, 41, of Romeoville, said she was just pulling in to a parking spot and getting ready to shop about 11 p.m. when she saw police running after a guy and heard multiple gunshots. 
 
 “When I pulled the car in, I heard the gunshots. I ducked under my seat,” Hernandez said. “It’s crazy. Romeoville doesn’t have a lot of crime like that.” 
 
 Contributing: Brian Stanley, Cindy Wojdyla Cain
– It's tough to decide which part of this story is worse: the crime or the aftermath. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a police officer's arm became caught in a Pontiac Sunfire around 10pm last night while chasing after a man who was allegedly part of a Black Friday shoplifting scheme at a Kohl's in Romeoville. As the car dragged the officer ("quite a distance, in WLS' telling), its driver refusing commands that he stop, police fired, hitting the driver on his left side, in the shoulder area. And then there's this, per the Tribune: Apparently not bothered by the three or four shots that were fired, nor by the fact that police had marked off a store entrance as a crime scene, shoppers continued to do their thing inside, though some stopped to snap cell photos of the scene.