Chicago cop shot and killed by fellow officer in friendly fire incident during tactical operation [View all]
Source: The Independent
A Chicago police officer was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow officer while pursuing a suspect on the city’s south side.
Krystal Rivera, a 36-year-old single mother who had spent four years on the force, was rushed to the hospital in a squad car after taking a gunshot wound to the back. The vehicle she was traveling in bizarrely crashed and caught on fire, and she had to be transferred into another vehicle to complete the journey.
The incident occurred at around 9:50 p.m. Thursday while Rivera and the Gresham (6th) District tactical team tried to conduct an investigatory stop on a person believed to have a weapon. Her death was later ruled a homicide.
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“As released in yesterday’s preliminary statement, an officer discharged his weapon during the encounter with an armed offender,” a CPD statement read on Friday. “Further investigation revealed the only weapon discharged during this incident was the weapon of the officer, whose gunfire unintentionally struck Officer Rivera.”
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