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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Struett

Chicago police officer shot answering call of domestic disturbance in Little Italy. ‘They were ambushed,’ top cop says

Chicago police investigate Friday morning in the 1300 block of West Taylor Street after officials said an officer was shot multiple times while responding to a call of a domestic disturbance in a University Village neighborhood apartment building. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

A Chicago police officer was “ambushed” and shot as he stepped off an elevator while answering a call of a domestic disturbance in Little Italy Friday morning, the city’s top cop said.

The officer was driven to Stroger Hospital, about a mile away, by a police officer from the University of Illinois at Chicago who had also responded to the scene, according to Police Supt. David Brown.

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