Officer stopped at a traffic light, off duty, in his personal car, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said. Offenders pull up behind him and beside him and just start firing into the car. Chicago Police Supt. David Brown delivers an update after an off-duty officer was shot during an incident on the city s South Side in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. The officer was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and rushed into surgery. He was said to be recovering from the procedure as of 4:30 p.m.
Dr. Susan Rowell, a University of Chicago Medicine trauma surgeon, said the officer sustained injuries to the small and large bowel and was doing as best as can be expected.