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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago constabulary serviceman was unintentionally changeable and killed by her spouse aft they chased a fishy into an flat and encountered different idiosyncratic with a rifle, officials said.
Krystal Rivera, 36, a four-year seasoned of the department, is survived by a 10-year-old daughter.
The spouse was the lone idiosyncratic who fired a weapon, and the “gunfire unintentionally struck Officer Rivera,” metropolis constabulary said successful a connection Friday. An autopsy showed she was changeable successful the back.
Rivera died astatine a infirmary precocious Thursday, little than an hr aft being shot.
Colleagues had brought her to the infirmary successful a squad car that crashed and caught connected occurrence owed to a malfunction, according to Police Superintendent Larry Snelling. She was past transported successful different squad car.
The idiosyncratic who allegedly brandished the firearm was taken into custody, constabulary said. They did not instantly accidental what charges the idiosyncratic would face.
The shooting occurred conscionable earlier 10 p.m. connected Thursday arsenic Rivera’s tactical portion conducted a halt connected idiosyncratic suspected of having a weapon. A pursuit ensued that ended successful the apartment. Investigators aboriginal recovered 3 weapons astatine the scene, constabulary said.
Snelling called Rivera “young, vibrant and a hard worker.”
Her parent told The Chicago Sun-Times that she had dreamed of being a constabulary serviceman since she was young.
“For me, it’s a privilege,” Rivera told the Sun-Times erstwhile she graduated from the academy successful 2021. “I travel from a household of serving. To assistance radical successful need, that’s my calling.”
