Off-duty police officer shot dead on her way home from work

An off-duty Chicago police officer was tragically shot and killed in the Avalon Park neighborhood early Saturday morning. The officer has not yet been publically identified. She was headed home from work when the incident occurred around 1:42 a.m. on the 8100 block of South Blackstone Avenue. Another officer responded to the scene after being alerted by the city’s ShotSpotter gunshot detection system, which indicated that nine rounds had been fired. The wounded officer was …

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