Chicago Hospital Shooting Kills Officer
- A Chicago police officer was killed and another was critically wounded Saturday after a suspect in custody opened fire inside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in the Ravenswood neighborhood. - Police said the officers had brought the suspect to the hospital for treatment around 9 a.m.; the shooting happened near 11 a.m., and a weapon was later recovered. - The shooting began with a prisoner transfer into an emergency department that had used weapon screening, raising new questions about hospital custody procedures. (abcnews.com)
A Chicago police officer was killed and another was critically wounded after a suspect in custody opened fire inside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital on Saturday morning. (abcnews.com) (nbcnews.com) Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said the officers had transported the suspect to the hospital for observation or treatment, and the shooting happened just before 11 a.m. in the Ravenswood facility on the North Side. (nbcnews.com) (fox32chicago.com) Authorities said one officer, a 38-year-old 10-year veteran of the department, died after the shooting. The second officer, a 57-year-old 21-year veteran, was hospitalized in critical condition. (cbsnews.com) (nbcnews.com) Endeavor Health said the suspect had been brought into the emergency department around 9 a.m. and had been screened with weapon-detection tools before later getting hold of a firearm and firing at the officers. (abcnews.com) (nbcnews.com) The suspect fled the hospital after the shooting, but police said he was apprehended a short time later and that a weapon was recovered. Officials said there was no active threat after the arrest. (abcnews.com) (fox32chicago.com) The hospital locked down its campus after the shooting and later said no patients or staff members were physically harmed. NBC Chicago reported the lockdown was lifted around 2 p.m. Saturday, though the hospital remained closed for part of the day. (abcnews.com) (nbcnews.com) The unanswered question is how a detainee who had been screened in a hospital emergency department was able to get access to a gun while under police watch. Snelling did not publicly detail how the firearm was obtained or why the suspect had been taken to Swedish Hospital. (abcnews.com) (nbcnews.com) By Saturday evening, police were still withholding the officers’ names pending family notification, and the investigation remained active. The case had already turned a routine hospital transport into one of the city’s deadliest police incidents of the year. (cbsnews.com) (blockclubchicago.org)
