Three people are in custody after two Chicago police officers were shot Saturday night. One of the officers later died from her injuries.
Chicago police said the shooting occurred about 9:10 p.m. in the 6300-block of South Bell Avenue in West Englewood, and it left the officers in serious-to-critical condition.
They were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where a crowd of hundreds of officers gathered after 10 p.m. to stand guard and pray. Some officers could be seen hugging each other; others appeared emotional.
Early Sunday morning, officers ceremoniously escorted French’s body to the medical examiner’s office.
She was part of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office before joining CPD.
It is a loss Irma Ruiz-Collins understands all too well.
“There’s an immediate sense of dread, of not again, of shock, of sadness,” she said.
Named after her mother, Irma Ruiz-Collins is the daughter of Chicago police Officer Irma Ruiz, who was shot and killed confronting a gunman inside a West Side school in 1988.
