<\/p>\nOfficers search on West Carmen Avenue for a gunman after a shooting Saturday at Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square.<\/p>\n
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\n Victor Hilitski \/ For the Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers gather outside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square after a gunman reportedly opened fire, killing one police officer and injuring another.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson stands behind police Supt. Larry Snelling outside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson stands with police officers Saturday outside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Members of the Chicago Fire Department salute as an ambulance carrying the body of a fallen police officer arrives at the Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Mohammad Samra\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers work the scene outside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square, after a gunman opened fire and injured two police officers Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital is blocked off by yellow tape after a gunman reportedly opened fire and injured two police officers Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Squad cars are parked outside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square, after a gunman opened fire and injured two officers at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Derek John\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers work the scene outside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square, after a gunman opened fire and wounded two officers Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Officers inspect a backyard in the 2600 block of West Carmen Avenue, where a gunman reportedly fled into a residence Saturday after opening fire and injuring two officers at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Victor Hilitski\/For the Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers work the scene near West Carmen Avenue and North Washtenaw Avenue, where a gunman reportedly fled into a residence Saturday after opening fire and injuring two officers at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Officers arrive in the 2600 block of West Carmen Avenue, where a gunman reportedly fled into a residence Saturday after opening fire and injuring two officers at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Victor Hilitski\/For the Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers work the scene near West Carmen Avenue and North Washtenaw Avenue, where a gunman reportedly fled into a residence Saturday after opening fire and injuring two officers at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers work the scene near West Carmen Avenue and North Washtenaw Avenue, where a gunman reportedly fled into a residence Saturday after opening fire and injuring two officers at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers work the scene near West Carmen Avenue and North Washtenaw Avenue, where a gunman reportedly fled into a residence Saturday after opening fire and injuring two officers at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital is blocked off by yellow tape after a gunman reportedly opened fire and injured two police officers Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\n Derek John\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Police officers work the scene outside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Lincoln Square, after a gunman shot two Chicago police officers Saturday morning, April 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
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\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n
Residents living near Swedish Hospital were told to shelter in place after the shooting. Local Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) said the suspected shooter was taken into custody by 12:10 p.m. Sources said the suspect ran from the hospital and was found nearby.<\/p>\n
Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters Saturday marked \u201ca real difficult moment for our city.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tragedy,\u201d Johnson said, speaking alongside Snelling. \u201cOur officers stand in the way of harm every single day, risking their own lives. And along with them risking their lives, they have family that expect them to come home. One of our officers will not be able to return to their family. And I\u2019m calling on the entire city of Chicago to pray for this officer\u2019s family, and that they heal from this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shortly after 5 p.m. a blocks-long procession of police vehicles accompanied an ambulance carrying the officer\u2019s body as it made its way to the medical examiner\u2019s office, where a growing crowd of officers and other first responders gathered to pay their respects.<\/p>\n
There was near-complete silence outside the medical examiner\u2019s office, 2121 W. Harrison St., as the ambulance, flanked on both sides by several squad cars, slowly made its way down Harrison Street.<\/p>\n
A few dozen officers and Chicago Fire Department personnel saluted as the ambulance turned toward the entrance of the medical examiner\u2019s office, and a giant U.S. flag was draped above the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy condolences, man,\u201d one passerby told officers minutes earlier as they waited for the procession to arrive.<\/p>\n
Several dozen people gathered for a prayer vigil Saturday evening at Hale Park on the Southwest Side.<\/p>\n
Melissa Vera, whose two sons have been police officers for about seven years, called the shooting \u201ca tragedy that shouldn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna take a ride up north [to Illinois Masonic] and do a couple prayers down there,\u201d said Vera, who attended the vigil with her sister, whose son also is a police officer. \u201c… This is what we need to do because I don\u2019t see a silver lining.\u201d<\/p>\n
Praying for both officers and their families is \u201cthe main thing we can do right now,\u201d said Donna Marquez, a chaplain for CPD whose brother, a Chicago police officer, was killed while on duty in 2002.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so hard to pray for people who do these kind of things. For me, it\u2019s very hard. \u2026 This community, I\u2019m not just saying this, this community loves the police,\u201d Marquez said, leading those attending the vigil to applaud. \u201cAnd the officers who do it, they know it. And that brings such peace to them, knowing that you people are behind them versus the evil eye.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some elected officials also attended the vigil, including Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) and former state Rep. Darren Bailey, the Republican candidate for Illinois governor.<\/p>\n
Bailey said while police officers \u201cserve and protect us, we\u2019ve got to do something to protect them.\u201d Without giving specifics, Bailey called out the \u201cmany\u201d recent state laws and policies that he said \u201chave pushed [police officers] aside and [degraded] the profession.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut right now, we simply need to remember these families,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cWe need to remember this life that was lost, we need to pray for the \u2026 police officer that\u2019s in the hospital, and we need to unify. And when we unify, when we push aside all of this political divide, we are people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
David Stevens, 22, who lives on Foster Avenue about a block from Swedish Hospital, said he was at home Saturday morning when he saw squad cars rushing toward the building. He said he walked toward the hospital and saw cops beginning to block off traffic.<\/p>\n
About a dozen people were gathered near California and Foster avenues around 1 p.m., watching as tactical officers walked in and out of the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel sorry for the police officers,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cI hope they and their families are OK.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chicago police officer was killed and another was \u201cfighting for his life\u201d after being wounded in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-606746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}