(CHICAGO) A high-ranking Chicago Police officer was shot fatally Tuesday afternoon at the Thompson Center downtown, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
The officer was shot by an “assailant” while assisting a tactical team in the 100 block of West Randolph, according to Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
The officer was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Guglielmi said.
Authorities said the officer has since died.
At the Thompson Center, hundreds of curious onlookers peered over police tape as the crime scene brought the normally bustling downtown intersection to an eerie standstill at the start of rush hour.
Attorney Deborah Martinez said she was walking into a courtroom on the 11th floor of the Daley Center when she saw people gathering by the window looking down on a sea of police vehicles gathering across the street outside the Thompson Center.
Martinez said she saw paramedics performing chest compressions on a person covered by a white sheet atop a stretcher.
Martinez said her coworker told her he was passing through the Thompson Center when he heard five or six gunshots.
“Right here in the Loop. It’s insane,” Martinez said.
– Chicago Sun-Times
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