By Nick Gale
(CHICAGO) An off-duty Chicago police officer who fired 16 shots at the wrong car after witnessing a drive-by shooting .
The Chicago Police Board voted unanimously to dismiss Officer Francisco Perez after they found that Perez “failed to identify the appropriate target prior to discharging his firearm,” while responding to a drive by shooting Nov. 5, 2011.
Perez was off-duty when he was walking toward his car in the 1100 block of North Ashland and witnessed the drive-by. A red car driving south on Ashland fired toward a parked blue car . A man standing on the sidewalk was killed by the gunfire and two other people were wounded.
The board says Perez mistakenly shot at the blue car, hitting the driver in the back.
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