Off-duty Chicago police officer killed in Tinley Park traffic crash
Village officials say both drivers were taken to Silver Cross Hospital where the officer was pronounced dead.
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Village officials say both drivers were taken to Silver Cross Hospital where the officer was pronounced dead.
The crash happened just after 9:30 p.m. in the 4200 block of West Congress Parkway.
The victim was shot in the torso and was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition.
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Illinois State Police around 1:36 a.m., troopers responded to a single-car crash on northbound I-57 at 107th Street.
The driver, a 41-year-old man, was providing a ride to an unidentified woman when she became angry and started to physically attack him, police said.
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Officers at the scene recovered at least one weapon from inside the car.
Law enforcement sources told CBS 2 it was an off-duty officer who was driving when she lost control and hit a 56-year-old woman.
He was identified as the offender who, on Nov. 19, around 7:45 p.m., stabbed and seriously injured the victim in the 1500 block of North Clybourn Avenue.