An off-duty Chicago police officer was fatally shot inside a home near O’Hare Airport on Tuesday evening, apparently by another off-duty officer who also lived there, according to Chicago police.
The shooting happened around 7:15 p.m. in the 8500 block of West Winona Street, police said in a brief statement. The off-duty officer, 44, suffered a single gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at Lutheran General Hospital, it said.
His name has not been released.
The statement said the shooting involved two off-duty Chicago police officers who lived in the home and that it was being investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
Off-duty Chicago police officer fatally shot in home near O’Hare, apparently by another off-duty officer, police say