Officer Fernanda Ballesteros, who was seriously wounded in a Chicago police shooting in West Englewood, will be released from the hospital Monday.
CHICAGO -- The Chicago police officer critically injured in a shooting in West Englewood last week will be released from the hospital Monday morning, a Chicago police spokesman said.
CPD Superintendent David Brown said at about 5:42 p.m. Wednesday, two officers, who were in uniform and driving a marked squad car, attempted a traffic stop near 61st and Paulina streets. The car they were attempting to stop at first sped off, then came back around and slowed down so they could pull up parallel to the officers' car and opened fire, striking the female officer, who was the driver of the squad car."They never completed the traffic stop.
Ballesteros' partner jumped into the driver's seat and rushed her to University of Chicago Hospital, Brown said.The injured officer's partner was also checked out at Northwestern and then released, with officials saying he was not injured in any way.
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