Chicago Police Officer Collapses, Dies Inside Station

July 10, 2018

Grief counselors have been sent to the Calumet District police station on Chicago’s Far South Side after a veteran officer collapsed and died Tuesday morning.

By By Rosemary Sobol

Source Chicago Tribune

Grief counselors have been sent to the Calumet District police station after a week of tragedy at the Far South Side station in Chicago.

CHICAGO — Grief counselors have been sent to the Calumet District police station on Chicago’s Far South Side after a veteran officer collapsed and died Tuesday morning, two days after another officer fatally shot himself in the station’s parking lot.

In the latest incident, an officer in her 40s collapsed shortly before 5 a.m. at the station at 727 W. 111th St., where she had been assigned, according to chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

The officer was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The officer had been on the force for more than 10 years, Guglielmi said.

He did not know what caused the death. Her body was to be taken to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

On Sunday night, a 36-year-old officer shot himself in the parking lot of the station at about 7:30 p.m. He was in a patrol car and used his service weapon, according to authorities. An autopsy Monday ruled his death a suicide.

Members of the department’s employee assistance program were sent to the district. “We have sent grief counselors there, we are making sure we do that,” Guglielmi said.

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