Thread: Chicago Cop shot in head

Does anyone have any more information on this article ?

http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/ ... 964236.cfm?

Usually in Chicago when they won't release the identity of an assailant its an IA. But its not polically correct to print it.
Anyone ?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 8894.story


Francis recently transferred back to a regular beat car and was working alone near Belmont and Western Avenues just feet away from his police station when he saw a CTA driver waving him down, police said.

When he stopped, the driver and a passenger told him the woman was causing trouble. He radioed for backup and got out of his vehicle. The woman, 4-foot-11 and an estimated 290 pounds, approached him. As he tried to usher her away, she became irate and struggled with him, grabbing his holstered gun, police said. She shot Francis as other officers arrived and rushed forward, they said.

She may have fired at those police officers as well, sources said, before they fired several shots, wounding her. No charges were filed against her by Wednesday night.

The woman, who according to court documents has no criminal record, was familiar to officers at the Belmont District, sleeping occasionally in the women's bathroom or in chairs in the district, police sources said. A current address for the woman matched an East Garfield Park shelter where staff did not remember the woman but said that Chicago detectives had come by Wednesday, showing photographs.

Some police officers said privately that they believed Francis should not have been working the beat alone that night. A departmental agreement dating to the 1960s suggests that officers should not work in cars alone after dark for safety reasons.

But the policy isn't binding and allows room for officers to be placed alone in cars unless they complained. Few do, officers said. As a result, many officers work patrol alone, especially in lower-crime neighborhoods.

Knutson said he rode with Francis' body from the hospital to the morgue, trying to honor the years the two spent together working their own squadrol.

If it's the same one I'm thinking of.....all they said was she was mentally ill and homeless.

Originally Posted by crazybird

If it's the same one I'm thinking of.....all they said was she was mentally ill and homeless.

Correct! News said, “Still waiting for charges to be filesâ€

Her family (which I don't understand the homeless part) is starting the BS, "she is ill", "The Police over reacted". (You know the same old BS, “It's always somebody else’s fault, crap!)

They always do. Do something but not to me or mine.