Chicago Officer Krystal Rivera shot, killed during foot pursuit of fleeing suspect

By William Lee and Caroline Kubzansky
Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was shot and killed during an armed confrontation in a Chatham apartment Thursday night, authorities said.

The officer, part of a tactical team in the Gresham (6th) District, was trying to conduct an investigatory stop on a person believed to have a weapon around 9:50 p.m. near the intersection of East 82nd Street and South Drexel Avenue, police Superintendent Larry Snelling said. The person the team was trying to stop started to run away, he said, leading to a foot chase that ended inside an apartment.

There, Snelling said, the team encountered a second person armed with a rifle. One of the officers fired a gun “at some point” during the confrontation, he…