Evanston Man Arrested After Threatening to Kill Officer, Police Say

A 31-year-old Evanston man faces charges of aggravated assault and obstruction of justice after Wilmette police say he threatened to kill an officer who wanted him to move his car.

An officer on patrol saw an empty pick-up truck parked in a traffic lane on Frontage Road in Wilmette at 9 p.m. June 9, according to police. The officer pulled up behind the truck as another car pulled over and told the officer she would get the truck’s owner and tell him to move it.

A few minutes later, the officer heard a man yelling as he walked toward the truck. The man refused to obey the officer’s commands and kept coming toward him, screaming obscenities, and threatened to take the officer’s gun and kill him, police said.

Back-up units arrived and took the man into custody. He was identified as Demetrius George of the 500 block of Dodge. The woman in the other car was his mother.