The shooting occurred shortly after 3:15 p.m. near the intersection of West Addison Street and North Elston Avenue, following what CPD Supt. David Brown described as a rear-end collision.
No official suspect information has been made immediately available.
Brown spoke to the frequency of road rage incidents in Chicago and how access to firearms has escalated violence. "We've had other regular residents of this city either beat up or assaulted during a road rage, but also we've seen gunplay in road rage incidents here. And really everywhere across this country, personal conflicts have ended more and more with escalating violence," Brown said.
In Tuesday's shooting, Chicago's top cop says that the officer was shot after her vehicle was rear-ended and pushed by the suspect in the case. That suspect then opened fire, striking the off-duty officer in the face.during an altercation in the city's River North neighborhood in the early evening of Aug. 23.after she was shot six times in a road rage incident on I-57 near Vollmer Road in the south suburbs.
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