Officer Fernanda Ballesteros, who was seriously wounded in a Chicago police shooting in West Englewood, was released from the hospital Monday.
A mariachi band, bagpipes and flowers also welcomed Ballesteros outside.
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.
"Then, as they were following them, the offender's vehicle turned, being almost perpendicular to the police officers' car, and then started shooting," he said, citing information he received from high-ranking police. 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.
Police sources said a 28-year-old man with a history of gun violence has been identified as one of the suspects in the shooting.
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