"I just want to say thank you to everybody that responded and I’ll be back soon," the 30-year-old officer said by police radio, according to FOX 32 of Chicago. The unidentified officer and others had responded to the city’s South Shore neighborhood to reports of shots fired, according to the station. A fellow officer drove her to a hospital, where she later received a visit from city Police Superintendent David Brown, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. — Superintendent David Brown, Chicago PoliceThe officer was the 12th in Chicago to be wounded by gunfire this year and at least the 35th to be fired upon, Brown said. The incident came only a few weeks after Chicago police Officer Ella French was fatally shot and her partner, Officer Carlos Yanez, was seriously wounded.

Source: Fox News September 26, 2021 06:33 UTC