A Chicago police officer was shot on the city's South Side on Monday night, CPD said.
The incident, which CPD is calling a police-involved shooting, happened in the East Chatham neighborhood near East 80th Street and South Ingleside Avenue.Neighbors who did not want to appear on camera told ABC7 they heard gunshots before seeing officers swarming the scene.
The injured officer was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in an unknown condition. A massive police presence could be seen outside the hospital at East 57th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue. A marked CPD vehicle surrounded by police tape sat outside the hospital Monday night, suggesting the officer who was shot may have been brought there by fellow officers.
What led up to the shooting was not immediately clear, but several streets surrounding the scene have been blocked off while police continue to investigate. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is responding, and the Mobile Command Post also arrived on the scene.CPD Supt. Larry Snelling is expected to hold a press conference on Monday evening.
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