A shoplifting suspect who got into a shootout with Chicago police is dead, and a police officer and a security worker were hospitalized in a confrontation Thursday afternoon at a store on the city’s Southwest Side, authorities said.
The officer is the fourth Chicago cop to be shot in less than two weeks.
“I get questioned all of the time, ‘what is the department doing about the violence, the shootings and the homicides?’ What we’re doing is risking our lives every day to protect this city,” Chicago police Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference outside Mount Sinai Hospital, where police said the officer was treated for a gunshot wound to the shoulder and underwent surgery before being released later Thursday.
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