(CHICAGO) An off-duty university police officer from Indiana was stabbed in the head early Monday while working security at an auto pound in the South Deering neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Paramedics responded about 1:10 a.m. to the city-owned auto pound in the 10300 block of South Doty, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said.
The victim was a 22-year-old off-duty police officer from Indiana University Northwest in Gary, who was working security at the yard, authorities said.
Police said he may have interrupted a suspect trying to break into a vehicle and, upon discovery, the suspect produced a “cutting instrument” and stabbed the officer.
He was stabbed in the “face or ear” and was taken with non-life-threatening injuries to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Langford said.
The officer had been released from the hospital by 8:40 a.m. Monday, according to Tom Wyatt, spokesman for IUN. He has been on the job for about one year.
His fellow officers are “happy and relieved he will be fine,” Wyatt said.
No one was in custody in connection with the stabbing as of Monday morning and Area South detectives are investigating.
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