An off-duty Chicago police officer died Monday night in an obvious suicide in a forest protect on the Northwest Side.
The incident concerned an off-duty Chicago police officer, in keeping with Chicago police, who mentioned the officer died in an obvious suicide. The officer’s title has not been launched.
Cook County sheriff’s police responded at 7 p.m. to Bunker Hill Forest Preserve close to Caldwell and Touhy avenues in connection to a dying investigation, in keeping with Cook County sheriff’s workplace spokesman Matt Walberg. The sheriff’s workplace was investigating the dying.
A police procession Monday night time took the officer to the Cook County medical expert’s workplace on the Near West Side.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi mentioned in a tweet that the dying was “debilitating news” and an “unthinkable loss of a dedicated police officer.”
“Our deepest condolences to his family & prayers for his extended police family in the 24th District,” Gugleilmi mentioned. The 24th District covers the Rogers Park and West Rogers Park neighborhoods on the North Side.
The medical expert’s workplace didn’t instantly launch particulars in regards to the dying.
In 2019, at the least three different Chicago law enforcement officials have died by suicide.