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Chicago police officer shot and killed while responding to domestic call: officials

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Emily Cortez

Published Jan 28, 2026

A Chicago cop was shot and killed on the city’s Southwest side on Wednesday, police authorities affirmed. The male cop was shot without further ado around 4:45 p.m. in Gage Park in the 5200 block of South Spaulding Road, Chicago Police Director David Brown told journalists at a question and answer session.

Two police cruisers answered a homegrown related report of a lady being pursued down the road by a man with a firearm, Brown said. One vehicle thumped on the entryway of the home required while the subsequent vehicle drew in with the shooter, who took off from officials.

Officials sought after the man, who at one point pivoted and took shots at them on numerous occasions “at short proximity,” striking one of the officials, Brown said. Police returned discharge and the shooter was shot in the head, he said.

The shot official was hurried to Sinai Clinic in basic condition, where he later died from his wounds. He was a five-year veteran of the power Brown said. The shooter, a 18-year-old, was additionally hospitalized and was in basic condition. No charges have been documented.

Brown said the departed official comes from “a group of community workers,” who is “taking this misfortune extremely hard.” He said police were connecting with relatives everywhere, including Colombia, attempting to get them to Chicago.

“Each official in this police division, and in this nation, is lamenting today,” Brown said. “Policing is a big group of individuals who know eventually they might be approached to make a definitive penance.”

“There are a few broken hearts that will consume most of the day to lament, to acknowledge this.” Chicago City chairman Lori Lightfoot joined Brown at the question and answer session. “I need to remind individuals that each and every day on each shift officials rush to risk for our wellbeing,” she said.

The shooting came hours after Brown turned in his abdication papers following the Vote based chairman losing her re-appointment bid in the Blustery City on Tuesday.

Brown filled in as Chicago’s top cop for a long time, a residency damaged by a flood in vicious wrongdoing and stale advancement on police changes — the very gives that prompted Lightfoot’s turning into the city’s most memorable officeholder chairman to not be reappointed in forty years.

Lightfoot lost Tuesday’s political decision by an embarrassing margin as help for her ever-evolving strategies faded as the city fights a continuous wrongdoing pestilence.

Lightfoot, 60, got only 16.4% of the complete vote, completing behind previous head of Chicago Government funded Schools Paul Vallas [35%] and Cook Region Magistrate Brandon Johnson [20.2%]. The city chairman accused her avalanche rout on prejudice and her orientation.

With no up-and-comer conveying over half of the vote, Vallas and Johnson will go head to head in a run-off political race on April 4, when Chicagoans will be compelled to settle on a basic choice on how the city battles increasing wrongdoing pushing ahead.

Female Chicago police officer shot and killed while responding to domestic call: officials

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Vallas, who completed first in casting a ballot and was the main white up-and-comer in the race, is viewed as the extreme on-wrongdoing competitor and procured the support of the city’s Congenial Request of Police.

He had called for Brown to be terminated and for the city to fill north of 1,600 existing opportunities at the police division. Assuming chosen, he’s promised to enlist extra cops to watch the city’s trains and transports, supplanting secretly contracted safety officers.

“Public wellbeing is the key right of each and every American,” Vallas told allies after surveys shut Tuesday night. “It is a common right, and it is the key liability of government. We will have a protected Chicago, and we will make Chicago the most secure city in America.”

Johnson, in the interim, has opened himself to analysis subsequent to requiring the city to “undermine the police” during a 2020 radio meeting, which he called “a truly political objective.” As Cook Region chief, he upheld a nonbinding goal to divert cash from policing and correctional facilities to social administrations.

Johnson’s arrangement to battle wrongdoing calls for carrying out the government assent order supervising the Chicago Police Division, which was sanctioned in 2019 following the deadly shooting of Laquan McDonald and requires improved preparing, strategies and practices in various regions — including utilization of power.

Under Lightfoot, Chicago saw 695 killings toward the finish of 2022, an ascent from 804 out of 2021 — a degree of brutality the Blustery City hasn’t found in 25 years. Last year likewise had in excess of 20,000 instances of burglary, almost twofold the episodes in 2021, as per the Chicago Police Division’s finish of-year report.

What’s more, the flooding wrongdoing doesn’t have all the earmarks of being easing up: In the initial three weeks of 2023, crime percentages in Chicago soar by 61% contrasted with last year, as per CPD.